Martin Luther King Jr. visited Florida many times. Here's what happened when he was jailed
The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
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Giving: SCLC to honor memory of 'Bloody Sunday' at Selma
The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting ...
Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Black history - and Dr. Martin Luther King
Early in the year, the significant legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King resonates strongly ... civil rights efforts fractured. King preached unity, but confronted disintegration. His Southern Christian ...
Bloody Sunday: SCLC Roanoke chapter to honor marchers on 60th Anniversary
On March 7, 1965 protestors for African American voting rights were attacked by law enforcement officers in Selma, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King Jr. fought for civil rights on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
Martin Luther King ... Civil Rights Movement. King became a prominent leader during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and he co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Ralph Abernathy ...
How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...
Former Atlanta mayor, civil rights icon Andrew Young turns 93
Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...