Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies In “The Summer People

In “The Summer People

enormous gratitude

this is a book that needed to be written

somehow Julie persuades Elle to step in as her assistant coach

known as Bertie

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies In “The Summer PeopleDaring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago. Helen Shiller went from radical anti war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold