Organizing the Ethnic Community: An Account of the Origin, History and Development of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans (1952-1995)

Organizing the Ethnic Community recounts the efforts of one Italian-American organization to establish a social-action program in the Chicago Metropolitan area. It is hoped that this report may serve as a guide for other Italian Americans in other cities, and for other ethnic groups that might wish to create a similar enterprise in order to contribute to the mosaic of American ethnic identities.