ABSTRACT
On 12 March 1967 at Cardozo High School in northwest Washington, DC, Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered a speech titled ‘On People and Shaw Urban Renewal’ to a crowd of around 3,800 people (Haskins 2007/2008: 55). King had been invited to speak by Reverend Walter Fauntroy, head of New Bethel Baptist Church and president of the Model Inner City Community Organization (MICCO). The day’s events started at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School with a parade of bands, floats and marching units through the Shaw School Urban Renewal Area, and ended with King’s speech at Cardozo High School (see Figure 13.1) (Honsa 1967: C2). Here, in the heart of the nation’s capital, one of the most well-known and influential political activists of the time was advocating for urban renewal in a predominately African-American neighbourhood.
