Source A A group of white protestors opposing King’s campaign
The mid-1960s were a period of great success for Martin Luther King and his campaigns for racial equality in the USA. His non-violent protests had helped dismantle the Jim Crow system of legal discrimination that repressed black Americans in the South. Lauded as a great leader across the world, King decided to travel north, to the city of Chicago.
AQA America, 1920 –1973: opportunity and inequality
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