Monday, January 21, 2019 || By Martin Luther King Jr. || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Martin Luther King during a march for fair housing in Chicago. | Bernard Kleina
The following is an excerpt from Martin Luther King’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, which was published in 1967 — a year before his assassination.
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Monday, January 21, 2019 || By Igor Studenkov || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Maywood resident and Marshall High girl’s varsity basketball coach Dorothy Gaters watches a game during her annual MLK Dream Classic Tournament. | Alexa Rogals
For the past 18 years, girls and boys basketball teams from public and private high schools all across Illinois have trekked to Marshall High School in Chicago for the MLK Dream Classic tournament.
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Attendees at an MLK Day viewing of the documentary “Children’s March,” held Jan. 19, at the 200 Building. Below, Maywood Mayor Edwenna Perkins at the screening. Photo by Nicholas Samuel for the Village Free Press. Monday, January 19, 2015 || By Nicholas Samuel At an MLK Day event, a documentary ignites in young minds the power of peaceful protest MAYWOOD || Youth audience members gasped as … Continue reading Maywood Youth See Themselves in Past Civil Rights Protesters
