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 ...

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 ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

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

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 ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical ... remarks eventually constituted one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in American history.

“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 ...