MLK in Chicago, August 1966

As the country honored Dr. Martin Luther King last year with a monument on the national mall in Washington D.C., Chicago's Freedom Movement Exhibit remembered a historic time in Chicago.

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MLK in Chicago, August 1966

Bernard Kleina's pictures of Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to Marquette Park and Soldier Field in Chicago tell a story in vivid color.

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