Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community

Daring 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 Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor.

political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day.

is a compelling, insightful, must-read for all those struggling for a better world today.