The 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery was a major event for both Heschel and King. A few days before the march took place, Heschel led a delegation of eight hundred people to FBI headquarters in New York City in order to protest the brutal treatment of demonstrators in Selma. On Friday,...
Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. ...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was brought to life through the words of the bus driver (“I was only doing my job”), followed by the words of Rosa Parks (“I was tired of giving in”). That led to Catherine Dalton’sShe Stood for Freedom, featuring the mellow voice of mezzo-soprano Tea...
as leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. These were only the first few steps on King’s road as an interfaith leader. King deliberately made interfaith cooperation a hallmark of his movement both for civil rights and for peace, working with people like the gay Quaker Bayard ...
Selma MarchArm in arm, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, leading the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965. 2 of 2 Women's Strike Day, 1970Women's Strike Day march in Washington, D.C., for equal employment and educational opportuniti...