Civil Rights

Chicago: 1965 to 1966

I think it is important that King took the movment north. While it might have not been the sucess he was looking for it was important.

The north ridiculed the south for there segreation against the black. However things were not much better in the north. There were obvious economic difference between the blacks and the whites. You could see with jobs held, school, and neighborhoods.

I think it was interesting the MLK took his movement up north to point out these flaws. He was showing how the north still had problems. It was really difficult to take the movement north but was needed. King for the most part realized that.

Picking chicago was a strategic thing. He looked at other cities but finally settled on Chicago. It was wise to stay out Philadelphia because that were the NCAAP president. I think that King should have seperated his movement from there. D.C was an unlikely chice because allot of legal movement were there.

Attention need to be brought to the north and there policy towards blacks. I feel it was witnessed when riots broke out during the protesting the neighborhoods. White made it know that they did want blacks to leave in there comunities. They were fine to judge the southerns but not themselves.