13179_34696_civil_rights4
Subjects
1950s, 1960s
B&W
Footage of the 1966 race riots in Chicago. Riot cops move through the darkness. Fires burn the urban landscape. Martin Luther King gives a speech about non violence as a reaction. Police with megaphones tell people to move along. Angry white people heckle marchers. A protestor yells back and others tell him to cut it out. MLK gives a speech about being against the vietnam war. Footage of war footage. A 1968 march in Memphis Tennessee to support striking sanitation workers.