As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

Louise Day Hicks, then the chair of the Boston School Committee ... "The enthusiasm was very high to hear and to see Martin Luther King," he says. "Not too many people, I'm sure even my generation ...

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system ...

On a rainy Friday in April of 1965, 22,000 Bostonians walked with Martin Luther King Jr., from the Carter Playground in Roxbury to Boston Common. The Globe described a "mile of marchers ...

Faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and politicians gathered at the Boston Common on Saturday afternoon to honor the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Roxbury to the ...

BOSTON — As a Black teenager ... joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor ...

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