King in Chicago

In the national celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday each year, most Americans recall or learn about Dr. King's leadership in confronting southern racism in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Far less discussed is his prophetic leadership in 1966 confronting northern racism and poverty as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement. After Chicago, King's understanding of the link between the goals of the Civil Rights Movement and the social injustice of poverty expanded his message to more urban issues of housing, education and poverty. Candid interviews with Jesse Jackson, James Bevel, Michael Pfleger, and others, period photos and stirring traditional music by Rutha Harris shine a light on their struggle for justice, while providing an invaluable context to the national conversation about the corrosive effects of pervasive racism and persistent poverty still found in the U. S. today.

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