Martin Luther King Jr. Event

Thursday, January 15, 6:30 PM
King in Chicago
(Seth McClellan, 2008, U.S., 77 minutes, Beta SP)
The annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday rarely gets around to exploring King’s post-Selma leadership in Chicago, where he confronted northern racism and poverty as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement. As King in Chicago documents, King understood early on that the goals of the war on poverty and the civil rights movement were linked. With candid interviews with Jesse Jackson, James Bevel, Michael Pfleger, and many others, King in Chicago provides much-needed historic context for the ongoing conversation about poverty and racism in the United States today. Introduced by the film’s director, Seth McClellan, followed by a short Q&A session. Co-sponsored by Block Cinema and Northwestern University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Planning Committee.