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Going South
By 19 66, bernardine has enrolled in law school, still at the university of chicago. And around the same time, reverend martin luther king junior arrives in the city to take up the cause of northern housing segregation. This is just two years after his i have a dream speech and letter from a birmingham jail. Hes already a nobele prize winner, the most important civil rights leader of his generation. Bernardine goes to hear him speak in a church on the south side. Everyone's crowded shoulder to shoulder. They're all waving paper fans. When doctor king, everybody goes crazy. I was surprised by this story. I'd never heard it before