1550 South Hamlin Avenue (MLK Chicago residence)

CTL-E-1189 · Institution · other · unspecified

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North Lawndale tenement apartment where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King lived during the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement; demolished after 1968 unrest; now the site of the Dr. King Legacy Apartments.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:d-mlk-hamlin-residence; source research type(s): institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

CounterPunch (2025); Chicago Magazine (2011)
Chicago Magazine (2011)

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