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1968 Democratic National Convention remembered in “Redlined”

Next Tuesday, August 28, 2018, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and the anti-Viet Nam War Protests that once again (after the ML King riots just five months earlier)  turned Chicago into a battleground and divided our city and country into camps; the "law and order" crowd (what Nixon called the "Silent Majority" vs. the anti-war protestors. It was the final melee in a year of turmoil that had roiled the nation.

2019-06-05T22:10:13-05:00August 23rd, 2018|Chicago, Chicago history, Chicago: A View Over Time|

Martin Luther King – Chicago West Side Memories

When an assassin felled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th 1968, it was not just the murder of the greatest leader of the Civil Rights Movement, it was the murder of hope for so many of our country's African American citizens.

1968 – A Sneak Preview from Redlined – 50 years later

On January 15th, a few days ago, the New York Times ran an article entitled "50 Years Later, It feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968." I was struck by how I've used the same word, fractured, in the title of my book: Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago.  I'm going to share just a portion of that year as covered in my book.

2020-10-05T16:41:26-05:00January 18th, 2018|Chicago history, Chicago: A View Over Time, Uncategorized|

Martin Luther King-Dream Speech: a remembrance of 8/28/68

Martin Luther King made his "I have a dream" speech on August 28th, 1963. It was held that day in honor of the anniversary of Emmett Till's torture and murder on the same date, in 1955. King murdered: Then in [...]

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