Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Those of us committed to continuing King’s dream should be outraged by the unjust economic proposals being advanced by the ...

I'm preparing for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by reading books and watching documentaries about the civil rights leader's life work. It was during my deep dive into the life of a ...

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the ... it’s historically caused people to see it as the “I Have a Dream” speech and to try to use it as a way to promote Dr. King as some ...

Dr. King's speech was not only the heart and emotional ... Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read their demands of lawmakers to the crowd. Looking over the demands now — among them, a $2 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black ...

“Bayard Rustin often said that he (King ... the final word,” King said during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964. “That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than ...

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Born in Crescent City on April 15, 1889, then raised and educated in Jacksonville, Florida Mr. Asa Philip Randolph was the son of an AME Minister and tailor father, and seamstress mother.