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MLK in Chicago (1966)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on January 20, 2008

The SCLC campaign in Chicago was a failure but still revealed a great deal about racism in the North. There is much of interest here on Dr. King, the local Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, the climate in the US in the mid-60s and more. This is a playlist, with five videos, approx. 30 mins total.

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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’

Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues

James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes