Themes: Social Unrest in the Sixties · Louis and Carl Stokes in this Decade of Change· King Comes to Cleveland · Terry versus Ohio · Map of the Incident · African Americans and the Law · Negro Industrial Economic Union
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< “Hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speak” Rev. Wade Hampton McKiney, WRHS.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Cleveland many times during the 1960s. This poster is from one of Dr. King’s first visits in 1961. Later Dr. King would come to advocate voter registration for Carl’s 1967 mayoral campaign.

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