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When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to Chicago in 1966, after leading the civil rights movement to its most important victories in the South, Ida Mae attends his rally. He speaks about the difficult path forward that Black people in the North—particularly migrants and their children—face in order to achieve equity with their white neighbors. In a sense, fighting segregation in the South was straightforward: it meant proposing a clear remedy (federal legislation) to take down a clearly-defined target (Jim Crow laws).
But in the North, racism is harder to address because it’s mostly informal: it isn’t written down…