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CSPL Covid Op-Ed Series: Covid-19 & Economic Justice
am not surprised that one of the highest-ranked communities with positive COVID-19 cases is the Chicago Lawn community. We hear, “stay at home,” “be responsible,” “it’s about saving others” but as much as social distancing is an effective way to prevent the spread of the virus, it has also made an important issue transparent; the profound and scandalous inequalities of our economic system. How can we expect a mother of three, who lives paycheck to paycheck, to stay home and still provide for her family? If resources were distributed equitably, then yes, maybe she could. Are we truly “all in this together?”
CSPL Blog || Martin Luther King, Jr., The Magi and Divine Civil Disobedience
It happened on an evening in late January of 1956. King had already been reluctantly thrust into the center of the growing Montgomery Bus Boycott alongside Rosa Parks and others. Just weeks before this night, a strategically planned act of civil disobedience was courageously executed by Rosa Parks. This act, and the chain of events that followed, set into motion a yearlong campaign that would dramatically alter our nation’s history.