Over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. marched through the park and hundreds gathered to fight for fair housing. Today, community organizations like imancentral and Greater Southwest Development Corporation honor that legacy in their work.
Barbara Miller was in her early 20s when she heard Martin Luther King Jr. was coming to Chicago.
The march was part of a bigger movement – one that Middlebury College historian Jim Ralph has followed. “I love revisiting the MLK Living Memorial,” Henderson said. “It’s a wonderful tribute to the people, the community, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fair housing marches.”A reminder of the past that Ralph says needs more attention.
“It’s almost a miraculous situation because you realize how hard they fought to try to keep the neighborhood, that they could’ve just shared,” Miller said. “It’s a neighborhood I couldn’t have walked through.”“It saddens me that he had to die in such a violent way. But I still know that he set up the country on a path that the dream will be realized and I expect it in my lifetime,” Miller said.
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