They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in attendance (it would be his final SCLC board meeting before his assassination, Young said), and Poitier was billed to deliver a speech after a performance by ...
“The picture of Bloody Sunday has never left ... and she was the only woman sitting on stage while Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Today, the Rev. Shavon ...
Believe it or not, women have directed only twenty-two Best Picture Oscar nominees at the Academy Awards, the first of which ...
Such nostalgia can include favorable feelings for three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices who, over the course of ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — For 30 years, a recording of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at Western Michigan University was lost. Then in 1997, it was found. The recording and related items at ...
Harvard decision, which struck down racial preferences, a very different picture emerges ... the favored path of many liberal heroes. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, argued that with passage ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. King, whose birthday is a national holiday, came dozens of times to Florida. As early as February 1958, King made a rousing speech at Bethel AME Church in Miami to ...