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August 6 2016: Chicagoans celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's march for open housing in Chicago
On August 6 1966 Dr.Martin Luther King led a march to end segregated housing in Chicago. The march into the racially segregated Marquette Park neighborhood was met with violence from a white mob. Dr. King was hit by a rock.
The 2016 march, organized primarily by faith groups, followed the same route, for a spirited rally and a music festival. There is now a monument to Dr. King and the civil rights movement in the Marquette Park neighborhood, which once featured an American Nazi Party office and was a dangerous place for Black people to even visit.
August 6 2016: Chicagoans celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's march for open housing in Chicago
On August 6 1966 Dr.Martin Luther King led a march to end segregated housing in Chicago. The march into the racially segregated Marquette Park neighborhood was met with violence from a white mob. Dr. King was hit by a rock.
The 2016 march, organized primarily by faith groups, followed the same route, for a spirited rally and a music festival. There is now a monument to Dr. King and the civil rights movement in the Marquette Park neighborhood, which once featured an American Nazi Party office and was a dangerous place for Black people to even visit.