Martin Luther King Jr.

CTL-E-0342 · Person · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who brought the civil-rights movement's open-housing campaign to Chicago in 1966, living in a North Lawndale tenement and leading fair-housing marches.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001, BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:martin-luther-king-jr, CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-033; source research type(s): Person, person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The Citizen Newspaper Group (2013-08-28); Middlebury — 'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Chicago Freedom Movement'
Middlebury — Chicago Freedom Movement project; Wikipedia — 'Marquette Park rallies'
The Citizen Newspaper Group (2013-08-28); Wikipedia — 'Marquette Park rallies'
Chicago Tribune via johnpwalshblog.com (2016); Citizen Newspaper Group (2013); Middlebury College Chicago Freedom Movement Sites
connectingthewindycity.com (citing Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1966)
Chicago Freedom Movement history Chicago Housing Authority CHA historical PDF
Mahalia Jackson biography Louisiana Weekly Louisiana Weekly

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