Hosea Williams stayed behind in Grenada, where police outside the jail clubbed three hundred people to break up a sympathy vigil for forty-three others arrested earlier, and King charged publicly that local officials had reneged on “every promise made” during the Meredith march. Headlines favored the new national controversy—“CORE Hears Cries of ‘Black Power,’” “Black Nationalists Gain More Attention in Harlem,” “NAACP Head Warns ‘Black Power’ Means ‘Black Death’”—which framed the front-page coverage even for Chicago’s grand kickoff rally on July 10: “Dr. King and CORE Chief Act to Heal Rights Breach.” Floyd McKissick trimmed his speech at Soldier Field to fit a movement trumpeted with warm-up music that ranged from the Singing Nuns of Mundelein College to blues legend B. B. King. Reporters chased a roving band of the Blackstone Rangers gang to photograph their black power banner. A white limousine delivered Martin Luther King, who spoke under a parasol in clammy 98 degree heat.
