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PHOTOS: Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago
SHAREOn the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Chicago remembers his time spent in our city, expanding his civil rights movement from the South.King brought his movement for equal rights north to Chicago in 1966, targeting the city’s stark segregation. Here,him to challenge the policies that maintained the rigidly white ethnic enclave, Marquette Park. “I have never seen, even in Mississippi and Alabama, mobs as hateful as I’ve seen here,” King said of Chicago.In this gallery of Chicago Sun-Times and AP archival photos, King is seen energizing crowds and...…SHAREOn the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Chicago remembers his time spent in our city, expanding his civil rights movement from the South.King brought his movement for equal rights north to Chicago in 1966, targeting the city’s stark segregation. Here,him to challenge the policies that maintained the rigidly white ethnic enclave, Marquette Park. “I have never seen, even in Mississippi and Alabama, mobs as hateful as I’ve seen here,” King said of Chicago.In this gallery of Chicago Sun-Times and AP archival photos, King is seen energizing crowds and...WW…
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