Chicago. He said he had to. “I have to do this,” he said as he tried to steady himself after the stoning, “to expose myself – to bring this hate into the open.” He had marched in the deepest corners of Alabama but was unprepared for what he was in for in Chicago. “I have seen many demonstrations in the South,” he said that violent day in the Promised Land. “But I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.
-Isabel Wilkerson
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