"As a journalist who has covered Helen Shiller, off and on, throughout her half-century of community activism, I have long wondered how she would tell her own epic story. Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win answers that question poignantly and powerfully…”
CLARENCE PAGE, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and Editorial Board Member of the Chicago Tribune
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Winner: SILVER MEDAL 2023 Midwest Book Awards
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.
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago–and the historic fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community
With insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win illuminates recurrent political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day.
Helen Shiller
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