Brian Mullgardt
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Connection to Illinois: Mullgardt is a professor of history at Millikin University in Decatur. Biography: Brian Mullgardt is a professor of history at Millikin University who specializes in US history in the Cold War era, with an emphasis on social activism during the “Long Sixties” (1955-1975). He has served as the vice president of the Macon County Historical Society and Museum and on the board of directors for the Illinois State Historical Society. He has published in several journals, including the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and the Journal of Illinois History.
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Web: https://millikin.edu/about/administration/faculty-staff-directory/brian-mullgardt
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Brian++Mullgardt
Selected Titles
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Chicago History ISBN: B06XF3V6LS OCLC: Chicago History Museum 2014 Contents The Park is The 1968 Democratic National Convention Protest; Up From Little Chicago's Public Housing Projects; Challenging the Medical Rebecca Keck; Yesterday's Goose Island's Earliest Residents, the Irish of Kilgubbin; Making Serving Chicago, Interviews with Mary Dempsey and Bernie Wong; etc. |
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Wear Some Armor in Your Hair: Urban Renewal and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Lincoln Park ISBN: 0809339358 OCLC: 1376172236 Southern Illinois University Press 2024 Police brutality, gentrification, and grassroots activism in 1960s Chicago In August of 1968, approximately 7,000 people protested the Vietnam War against the backdrop of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. This highly televised event began peacefully but quickly turned into what was later termed a “police riot.” Brian Mullgardt’s investigation of this event and the preceding tensions shines a light on the ministers, Yippies, and community members who showed up and stood together against the brutality of the police. Charting a complex social history, Wear Some Armor in Your Hair brings together Chicago history, the 1960s, and urbanization, focusing not on the national leaders, but on the grassroots activists of the time. Beginning in 1955, two competing visions of urban renewal existed, and the groups that propounded each clashed publicly, but peacefully. One group, linked to city hall, envisioned a future Lincoln Park that paid lip service to diversity but actually included very little. The other group, the North Side Cooperative Ministry, offered a different vision of Lincoln Park that was much more diverse in terms of class and race. When the Yippies announced anti-war protests for the summer of ‘68, the North Side Cooperative Ministry played an instrumental role. Ultimately, the violence of that week altered community relations and the forces of gentrification won out. Mullgardt’s focus on the activists and community members of Lincoln Park, a neighborhood at the nexus of national trends, broadens the scope of understanding around a pivotal and monumental chapter of our history. The story of Lincoln Park, Chicago, is in many ways the story of 1960s activism writ small, and in other ways challenges us to view national trends differently. |