#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Martyr Made Podcast
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s First Foray Into the Northern Cities in 1966
The great migration of southern blacks into the cities began in the early 20th century. The black migrants were not settling in communities that really thought of themselves primarily as white. In New York City to stick with the theme, they came into a city that was mostly Irish, Jewish, and Italian. And so today, when we read about incidents like the infamous riot when Martin Luther King Jr. made his first foray into the northern cities? We see a bunch of white people protesting against a bunch of black people who want to come live in their neighborhood. But that is not how the residents of Marquette Park perceived themselves at the time.
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