MLK in the North

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Near the end of his life, King fought against poverty and de facto segregation in the North.

Fifty years later, Chicago remains one of the most segregated cities in the nation.

When Martin Luther King Jr. took his fight into the North, and saw a new level of hatred

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out of his car in Chicago, he was met by a line of police and a mob of angry white people.

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