Jo Freeman

Group 22 - Chapter 120 - The West Side TORCH

Mohammad Ali spoke on May 10, 1967 at a conference on the war in Viet Nam at the University of Chicago. He had been found guilty of draft evasion in 1966 and stripped of his titles. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1971. He never went to jail.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Jim Bevel spoke on May 10 at a conference on the war in Viet Nam at the University of Chicago. He was organizing the national movement to end the war at that time.

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Two girls peer at the grave of Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader slain in Mississippi in 1963, in Arlington National Cemetery.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Urban Renewal on Chicago's west side.

Protestors picket City Hall on June 2, 1967 demanding that urban renewal cease.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Some of the devastation left by urban renewal on Chicago's west side.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Chicago's west side looked like a bombed-out city.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Mayor Daley made an unplanned appearance on Tuesday afternoon at an urban renewal conference held in Lawndale June 6-7.

Photo by Jo Freeman

Two issues of the West Side TORCH

Photo by Jo Freeman taken in 2020

Dr. King is surprised at how the Chicago Tribune describes his speech at the Breadbasket conference.

Photo by Jack Finley

My apartment was in back. You entered through a door on the side alley.

Photo by Jo Freeman, taken in 1996

Coretta Scott King at the 1967 Mother's Day march in DC against the war in Viet Nam. She is flanked by Monsignor Charles O. Rice and Mrs. Jane Spock. Dr. Benjamin Spock's arm can be seen to the right.

Photo by Jo Freeman