Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Activism
On the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights lea…
Rev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the… read more
Rev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, he played a major role in the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world." close
On the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights lea…
Historian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Part…
Civil rights leaders and contemporary movement leaders spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the same spot where t…
Civil rights leaders and contemporary movement leaders spoke at the Lincoln Memorial at a “Realize the Dream” commemorat…