The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned his focus to Chicago 60 years ago this month. The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the ...

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A photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. waving out a window adorns the exterior of the King Legacy Apartments at 16th Street and Hamlin Avenue in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood on Jan. 16, 2018.

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King spoke at Hofstra the year after he won the Nobel Peace Prize and just months after "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.