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Black Philadelphians lived MLK's fight to end housing discrimination


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Residents are pictured in the courtyard of Richard Allen Homes. Some debris is littered about the ground. (Courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center/Temple University Libraries)
Walter Palmer was living in a small two-story house in a section of West Philadelphia known as the Black Bottom in the late 1960s when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously uncovered blatant housing discrimination in Chicago.
As King led marches through that city in protest of what he called the “de-facto segregation of the North,” Palmer played percussion in a jazz club down the block from his house and watched as the civil rights movement took hold in his neighborhood, an African American community that had thrived there since the 1800s despite the racism that coursed through the city, enforcing segregation and limiting mobility. ....

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