King's Civil Rights Campaign in the North Was Not an Attack on Outrageous Laws

King's campaign in the north was simply reacting to a major shift in the epicenter of black America, writes historian James R. Ralph. King actually moved into an apartment in the most hard-scrabble section of North Londale where poorest and most recent arrivals from the south had shakily established themselves. The march had barely begun when a heckler hurled rocks as big as a fist at King, striking him in the head just above the right ear. He fell to his knees and as he tried to get up the crowd pelt of the demonstrators with bottles, eggs, firecrackers, and more rocks. Some 1,200 police officers and 200 plain clothesmen had gathered