The Nation - News from Aug. 29, 1988

Hooded Ku Klux Klansmen preaching white supremacy staged a rally in Chicago near a multiracial gathering in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as hundreds of club-carrying police tried to keep the crowds under control. Fourteen people were arrested, most for disorderly conduct, in a tense afternoon at Marquette Park, where similar rallies sparked violence and resulted in 17 arrests two years ago. Police swarmed to the rescue of a black man wearing headphones who wandered by accident into the klan rally and then was chased. The klan rally overlapped with a “Dream Day” commemoration on the opposite end of the park in honor of the 25th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington. There were no confrontations between the two groups at the southwest side park, where King was struck by a brick in 1966 while leading a march.