Mid City Community conference at 4007 Delmar blvd. From left around table: Rev. H.J. Glasco, pastor, Mt. Bethel Baptist Church and SCLC representative in St. Louis; Rev. Arthur Marshall, pastor of Metro AME Zion Church; W.M. Bailey, chairman, West End Community conference; Percy Green, ACTION; M. Hatchett, NAACP; Solomon Rook, CORE; Father Francis Soyle, ex. director, Archdiocan commison on Human Rights.
Photograph of marchers holding portaits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during parade. Sign at left says, "Martin Luther Jr. never wavered from his basic belief that LOVE was the Negro's most powerful WEAPON"
FAIR HOUSING PICKETS IN U. CITY -- Pickets march in front of the Supreme Management Corp. at 6621 Delmar bl. in University City to protest against alleged housing discrimination at an apartment project operated by the firm in Berkeley. The picketing was sponsored by the Berkeley and University City Freedome of Residence committees, University City Civic Association, CORE and ACTION. Picketing was held Friday and Saturday and is expected to continue Monday.
Protest at Homer G.: About 100 people on foot and in cars paraded with hand-lettered signs from Homer G. Phillips Hospital to City Hall Sunday in observance of the one-year anniversary of the closing of its acute-care facilities. Young protestors, Jolene Cotton (4) and Tiffany Hudson (2), joined the ranks of demonstrators in a march that marked the one year closing of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
We're Martin's people.' Marchers head down Market Street Friday in observance of the 53rd anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They hold portraits of Dr. King and signs calling for Dr. King's birthday to be made a national holiday. Some of the marchers knew Dr. King and marched with him during the 1960s. Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Story on 2A.