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Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect on t ...
The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one we honor and celebrate ... according to BBC. During the 1963 March on Washington, King gave a completely different speech which revved up the ...
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968 ...
This year, MLK Day falls on the same day as Inauguration ... a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, are among the most iconic in U.S. history.
In a speech to a joint session of Congress in March, President Donald Trump ... that the Montgomery bus boycott led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 and 1956 lasted 381 days.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, drivers in the Leesburg area can expect to see some street closures as community members gather for the 34th Annual Martin ...
A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian ...
While the holiday arrived in early March for some students, March 17-21 was the week chosen for spring break for the majority ...
In March 1965, the United States became involved ... The Nation described the protestors as a “new generation of radicals.” Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against the war.
notably the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Born in 1912 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin was raised by Quaker ...
MEMPHIS, April 8, 1968 (UPI) -- Mrs. Martin Luther King, dressed in black and with ... ahead with Dr. King's planned "poor people's" march on Washington, declaring: "We are going yes, we are ...