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Vol. 29 No. 31

August 10, 2016

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Seth McClellan on King, page 5

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

STILL MARCHING FOR JUSTICE: Rev. Jesse Jackson leads a march from Marquette Park on Aug. 6 to commemorate the Aug. 5, 1966 march from Marquette Park led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fifty years ago, Jackson recalled, “I got hit in the shoulder with a bottle.”

Remembering King in Chicago – 50 years later By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

On Aug. 5, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, along with several hundred other marchers, descended onto Marquette Park on the city’s

South Side for a demonstration designed to help stamp out Chicago’s galling racism and discrimination. The marchers’ logistical goal was to part the sea of Italian and Polish and German humanity on their way to a real estate office

in the neighborhood. Despite a heavy police escort, however, not many demonstrators would make it. As soon as the marchers arrived at Marquette Park, writes Rev. Jesse Jackson in a recent column published in the Chicago

Tribune, “We were confronted by more than 4,000 angry whites, hurling bricks, beer bottles, firecrackers, knives and the N-word. Some let loose from up in the trees. The air See MARQUETTE MARCH on page 4

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