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Midday News Links: MLK Day Roundup

By Staff in News on Jan 16, 2012 6:40PM

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  • Slate has a wonderful gallery of forgotten photos from the day Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis. [Slate]

  • Rev. Jesse Jackson planned to sleep on a cot at Pacific Garden Mission to commemorate Dr. King's Birthday. But the mission was so full, he slept on the floor instead. [Sun-Times]

  • An alliance of community groups joined forces with Occupy Chicago to claim the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a rally in Uptown Sunday. [Sun-Times]

  • Michael Gebert looks at Chicago's forgotten involvement in the Lunch Counter Sit-In Movement. [Grub Street Chicago]

  • Art Shay's post remembering Dr. King from last year still resonates today. [Chicagoist]

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