Martin Luther King ... must go.” King referred to Chicago as a “symbol of de facto segregation,” Rooney reported, and the civil rights leader urged Mayor Richard J. Daley to “hear the ...
His name was Earl Hardy and his dream was to make a film about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ... not happen because of Mayor Richard J. Daley’s admiration for King, but rather to placate ...
(Amy Shortell/The Morning Call) Mayor J. William Reynolds speaks at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement March on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Martin Luther King Park in Bethlehem.