Chicago Freedom Movement
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.''s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King''s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (C...
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.''s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King''s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (C...