This Week in Black History: Martin Luther King Jr. leads 60,000 at Chicago Freedom Movement rally – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

This Week in Black History: Martin Luther King Jr. leads 60,000 at Chicago Freedom Movement rally – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

On July 10, 1966, an estimated 60,000 people filled Chicago’s Soldier Field for the largest northern civil rights rally of its era, answering the call of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Freedom Movement. The Chicago Freedom Movement, organized by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside local activists, marked a new chapter for the civil rights movement as it expanded its focus beyond the South. The campaig…