Outline

Thesis: As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opened up doors for minorities to settle in the Gage and Marquette Park neighborhoods, the population drastically changed as African Americans, and Hispanic immigrants moved in to the neighborhood.

I. Irish and Polish immigrants began to settle in Gage Park in the mid 1950s.

• Irish and Polish immigrants
• Businesses and Churches were built
• CTA

II. Real estate agencies had restrictive covenants, and regulated laws that discouraged minorities to move into Gage Park.

• Real estate agencies
• Open housing
• quotas
• restrictive covenants

III. Civil Rights Movement in Chicago

• Public Open Housing marches
• MLK rally in Gage and Marquette Parks
• Restrictive Covenants decline

IV.  Demographic Change

• Roman Catholics remain
• neighborhood remained middle/working class
• Minorities, specifically Hispanics begin moving into the neighborhood.