From the Tribune Editorial Board: '(Martin Luther King's) immortal spirit of determination, resilience and nonviolence still shines a bright optimistic light of hope to lead all of us out of a dark past into a brighter future.'
Martin Luther King Jr.'s stay in Chicago resulted in an agreement by local real estate agents to abide by the city's fair-housing ordinance in exchange for an end to protest marches. King is shown in November 1966, reviewing a copy of the ordinance with a West Side real estate agent.
On the heels of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and other legal victories in the face of Jim Crow, the movement was turning its eyes to the more subtle “de facto segregation” that denied equal access to jobs, housing and education across racial lines in the North.Unlike the South, where “we always had segregationists to help make issues clear,” King said in the vernacular of those times, “this ghetto Negro has been invisible for too long.
Even before King delivered a historic speech at Soldier Field on July 10, 1966, he was already taking on politicians in Chicago, including Daley, in pursuit of “open housing” for nonwhites in the city. “I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate,” King said later.
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