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| Date | January 26, 1966 (1966-01-26) | ||
| Location | North Lawndale (West Side), Chicago | ||
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Main article: Chicago Freedom Movement See also: Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Redlining| MLK speech, against Chicago Slums | |
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On January 26, 1966 Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta King moved into a North Lawndale slum flat at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave, with rent at $90 a month (equivalent to $845 in 2023). The goal was to highlight the slum conditions in Chicago.
Location of where the Kings' rented and lived, who choose a slum tenement to highlight the cities inequality, and markers of the rent strikes in the surrounding Chicago area."A West Side apartment will symbolize the slum-lordism that I hope to smash."
— Martin Luther King,
Strike
Aftermath
See also
Notes
- Full name:Lawndale Union to End Slums
- Full name:East Garfield Park Union to End Slums
- Jobs Or Income Now
References
- "The Chicago Freedom Movement | National Low Income Housing Coalition". nlihc.org. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- Tatman, Heather (2022-01-29). "Fair Housing History Lesson: The Chicago Freedom Movement". Fair Housing Council of Oregon. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- Momodu, Samuel (2016-08-31). "Chicago Freedom Movement (1965–1967) •". Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- "DR. KING OCCUPIES A FLAT IN SLUMS; Will Lead Chicago Campaign Threatens Rent Strikes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- Reporter, The Chicago (2016-02-01). "The roots of the Chicago Freedom Movement". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
- "Chapter 28: Chicago Campaign | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute". kinginstitute.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- Hill, Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, Norman (2018-01-15). "The Chicago Freedom Movement's quest for economic justice". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - "Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005) - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy". 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- "The housing struggle then and now". SocialistWorker.org. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- ^ "The Longest March". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
- Gellman, Erik S. (June 2017). "The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North". Journal of American History. 104 (1): 270. doi:10.1093/jahist/jax135. ISSN 0021-8723.
- Sonnie, Amy; Tracy, James (2011). Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power: community organizing in radical times. New York, N.Y: Melville House. ISBN 978-1-935554-66-0.
- https://www.sds-1960s.org/NLN/NewLeftNotes-vol1-no19.pdf.
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