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It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...
Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for ...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in which ...
Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...
Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...
Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for people of color. The ...
Speaking at the Radio, Television News Directors Association Convention in Chicago, Illinois along ... Read More: 10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. While the New York Times did ...