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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Herman, for sharing this bit of our history! Mark, can you link this to our 5<sup>th</sup> City Files in the archives? Lynda
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 1:38 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Herman Greene <hfgreenenc@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Oe List ...] I'm remembering what happened when MLK died<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">Here's a </a><a href="http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/riots-chicago-1968-mlk/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">good current article</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">
with pictures and sound in the <i>Chicago Tribute.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">This article has it right that North Lawndale and East Garfield Park (of which Fifty City, now recognized as a sub-neighborhood of E Garfield Park, is a part) were hardest hit. The
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Here's a r</span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-martin-luther-king-riots-chicago-kass-20180403-story.html"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">eflection
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Here's an </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">My memory is that I first heard about the death of MLK in RFK's speech but I'm not sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">The next day, as I remember it, I did my usual commute from the Westside to the University of Chicago on the el, an even more scary commute than usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">That night all hell broke loose. Joy and I were baby sitting. It was a Friday evening and there was a course being given on black history with many black people from St. Louis. The room we were
in was an upper floor with a view to the west. We could see fires being lit one after another getting closer and closer to us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">We remember the fires that were lit in our building and the hurried instructions for us to leave the building.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Late at night we returned to the building and sat in an upper hallway with the lights out.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">It was surreal. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">The first story above rightly states that these neighborhoods were never rebuilt and are filled with
empty lots. This is not to say there have not been many changes and positive developments as well.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">I just looked up North Lawndale in Wikipedia. The average family income there today is $22,000.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Herman</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">__________________________________________________
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Herman F. Greene<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">2516 Winningham Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="mailto:hfgreenenc@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">hfgreenenc@gmail.com</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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