Radio Rootz' This Day in History
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Key 1
Two years before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the Chicago Freedom Movement against the cities segregated slums. This was the first time that King and the SCLC had tackled desegregation issues in the North, and to their surprise it proved to be a more hostile battleground than the outright racism of the South. Kings experience in Chicago caused him to reshape his views on American Capitalism and the process of change. When King was later criticized for involving himself in the Anti-Vietnam War movement and the Poor Peoples Campaign in America, he argued that there was a direct relationship between poverty and racism and American Militarism and Imperialism.
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