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As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.
The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one we honor and ... The Act was signed in 1968 by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. King’s first job was as a paper boy for the Atlanta Journal ...
Every January, Americans rightfully celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader, political philosopher and Baptist minister Martin Luther King ... President Lyndon B. Johnson, Tim ...
Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...
On April 4, the National Civil Rights Museum honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 57 years after ... against police brutality." President Lyndon B. Johnson sent his undersecretary of labor to ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure of the civil ... prompting President Lyndon B Johnson to deploy the National Guard to assist local authorities. The unrest resulted in 12 deaths ...
When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the March on Washington in 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. standing […] ...
This year, on the birthday of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., it’s more important ... having taken place just a few months before President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights ...