“MLK wasn’t all that ‘non-violent’ when he marched/protested. When he was in Chicago and marching into the Marquette Park neighborhood, behind MLK and the other ‘Rev’s’ were black gang-bangers. And they always started ‘something’ with the white locals who lived there. Every march turned into a Riot. ‘Non-Violent’ he wasn’t.”
Marquette Park was the only large park left on the south side at the time that wasn’t in a Black neighborhood, and King wanted to “integrate” it. Strange how the Bridgeport neighborhood where the Daley family lived, which was right in the path of the Black migration of the 60’s and 70’s never suffered the same fate as Englewood and other neighborhoods....
Marquette Park was the only large park left on the south side at the time that wasn’t in a Black neighborhood, and King wanted to “integrate” it.I loved that park and area. I had an Aunt & Uncle that lived close to teh Park and the Park's Golf Course is one of the places I learned to play when I was a 'wee lad'.
Then in the 19070's me and my buds would hang out in the park, near the Park's Monument on the corner at 67th & California Ave. We'd just sit on a bench, chill and 'bs', while listening to one of the car's radios through an open door window. It was a beautiful place to just go and relax.
Not any longer. MLK got his dream - it's now an 'integrated' black & brown poop-hole of an area, and park.