Congressman Bennie Thompson, during his keynote address at the city’s interfaith breakfast Friday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., recalled with a laugh a valuable lesson he learned in Chicago.
Thompson, the Democratic lawmaker from Mississippi who recently chaired the Jan. 6 Committee’s investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol, said that in the 1960s, he lived with a relative and worked at Ford Motor Company’s South Side manufacturing plant to save money for college.
