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Anderson, James D. Cortez, Gabriel A. 2015-09-25T19:54:59Z 2015-09-25T19:54:59Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 This research is an historical analysis of a social movement that took place in Chicago's Little Village community. The movement was inspired when the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) failed to construct a new high school promised three years earlier to alleviate overcrowding in the community's only public high school at the time. The movement reached a climax when a group of residents held a hunger strike to bring attention to CPS' negligence on the issue. The methods used for gathering data is a combination of a group interview with five hunger strikers, archival research, periodicals, internal document analysis, journal entries, internet sources, and peer feedback. The researcher searched for common themes that connect the varied sources and provided an interpretation on how key individuals, events, and decisions influenced the movement. The social movement's persistence to pressure public officials received an insurmountable amount of support and garnered them enough political leverage to negotiate with the CPS and commit to the construction of the high school. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T19:54:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3314751.pdf: 2123514 bytes, checksum: 664b4eedb6035e3079f2b943e748c33a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 81306 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 177 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/80024 (MiAaPQ)AAI3314751 eng History, United States Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike: A Popular Movement's Struggle for Education in Chicago's Little Village Community text University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. Educational Policy Studies Educational Policy Studies