Chicago Freedom Movement

Fulfilling the Dream

August 4, 1966

Martin Luther King meets with political leaders of black community, including aldermen at Washington Park YMCA and then leads big rally at New Friendship Baptist Church; Catholic weekly New World denounces “Catholic Know Nothings” who injured Sister Mary Angelica in march; Frank Ditto, chairperson of Oakland Community for Community Improvement, arrested during march on Daley’s Bridgeport house.

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