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Season for Nonviolence 2012: February 13 |
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Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00 |
Season for Nonviolence 2012
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January 30 – April 4
February 13
King was the target of rock throwers in Chicago
Deed
A crowd of hostile whites was waiting for King in Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1966. Police officers surrounded King as he arrived at the park, “but seconds later, he was knocked to one knee by a rock that struck him in the right temple.” (David Garrow, Bearing the Cross) After being helped up, King gathered himself and led a march of 600 people from Marquette Park to 63rd Street, site of several racist real estate firms.
Thought
After the march, King said he had “never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.” He planned to continue marching, stones or no stones. “I have to do this — to expose myself — to bring this hate into the open ... so that this community will be forced to deal with it.”
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