#OnThisDay in 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC announced initial planning for the Chicago Freedom Movement. Chicago's Black Community had been victimized by brutal housing discrimination, often segregated into substandard slums. The SCLC looked to end the established de-facto segregation that put African Americans at a disadvantage in employment, education, and public safety.
Let's remember their efforts to end
#HousingDiscrimination today.
#EndHousingDiscrimination #FairHousing #EqualHousingOpportunities
Photo Credit: Oxford University Archives, Photograph by John Tweedle, courtesy of Dianne Tweedle.