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01/18/2019 2:20 pm ET In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. extended his mission beyond the South 鈥� pushing for progress in the North starting in Chicago. Dr. King penned this piece for the Monitor on March 14, 1967, making his case for open housing to end segregation and overcrowding. 鈥淪lums and slumism,鈥� he writes, is 鈥渢he end product of domestic colonialism.鈥� Part of a 2019 archival project on King.