On March 25, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King addressed reporters during a press conference in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
It is an unprecedented turnout, researchers and activists say, driven by a mix of factors including changes in how people protest and changing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself.
On Wednesday night, the auditorium of the Jewish Community Center was filled in support of Israel during a war with Hamas that has already claimed hundreds of lives.