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American politician and 48th Mayor of Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr. attracted criticisms from multiple directions: some Black leaders and communities opposed his tactics and outsider role in places like Chicago, others argued his nonviolent phil...
was not uniformly spared the “long, hot summers” of the 1960s; the city experienced multiple serious uprisings (notably on the in 1966 and after King’s assassination in 1968) but—relative to some cont...
Chicago’s history of vote fraud is real, well-documented and concentrated in the city’s machine politics era, with pockets of large-scale misconduct exposed in the 1960s–1980s; subsequent investigatio...