This article reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago Freedom Movement and its role in confronting housing discrimination, laying the groundwork for the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Through a deeply ...
Protect the promise of fair housing and rebuild it stronger than before, writes an attorney with the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
We look back on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Chicago Freedom Movement. The campaign was announced 60 years ago this month and aimed to improve housing ...
Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers to the civil rights movement dot the city landscape: Dr. King’s house, the place where Rosa Parks was arrested, homes of other activists like E.D. Nixon and ...
"Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s" at the Chicago History Museum includes Carlos Barberena's 2020 linocut of George Floyd (upper left) and William Estrada's Education Is a ...
Ask most people why we celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, and you’ll get a variety of answers. The promotion of civil rights, some may note. The “I Have A ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A color photograph of a man holding ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A color photograph of a crowd with a ...
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