60 years after MLK protested in Marquette Park, marchers carry on his legacy

Bernice King looked out into the crowd of rain ponchos and umbrellas Saturday morning, echoing the calls of her father, who stood in the same spot 60 years before. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists marched to Marquette Park in August 1966 to protest redlining and housing discrimination that spread in Chicago in the decades after droves of Black people moved north and settled in the city during the Great Migration. In Marquette Park that day, King and his associates were met…