Daley contributed to John F. Kennedy's narrow, 8,000 vote victory in Illinois in 1960. In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel took the Civil Rights Movement north and encouraged racial integration of Chicago's neighborhoods, such as Marquette Park. Daley called for a "summit conference" and signed an agreement with King and other community leaders to foster open housing. The public agreement itself was without legal standing and ignored. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's efforts in Chicago contributed to the passage of the Fair Housing Act two years later.