25th March 1965: Peaceful protesters in the Alabama civil rights march which was led by Dr Martin Luther King. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images) MLK Getty Images MLK President Lyndon B Johnson (1908 - 1973) discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luth...
The March on Washington produced a bigger turnout than expected, as an estimated 250,000 people arrived to participate in what was then the largest gathering for an event in the history of the nation’s capital. Along with notable speeches by Randolph and Lewis, the audience was treated to ...
He led a march in support of striking sanitation workers. 他带队游行,支持环卫工人的罢工。 But the protest turned violent when young militants began looting stores. 但这场抗议活动最终由于年轻激进分子抢劫商店而演变成暴力冲突。 King was distraught and vowed to return to Memphis to lead a peaceful ...
Six days later, on March 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson went on national television to pledge his support to the Selma protesters and to call for the passage of a new voting rights bill that he was introducing in Congress. “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. Th...
With the success of the March on Washington, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Dr. King focused his next campaign in the North to tackle rental injustices and improve living conditions for black families in Chicago with a non-violent approach....
In the background is an image of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP ...
Neither the Emancipation Proclamation nor the 13th Amendment nor the Voting Rights Act nor the institution of a category of felonies called hate crimes has changed this. Black bodies have only been good for making wealth off of or using as scapegoats for white rage. How long, O Lord, how ...
Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he resolved to pursue a more expansive, aggressive, and (to white Americans, especially) unsettling socioeconomic and political agenda, one that would draw him into another fateful labor dispute some three and a half years ...
Sixty years ago, a group of committed Americans set out to march in Washington, DC, because they had not seen the progress our movement deserved. Among their demands was the passage of the Voting Rights Act— which would become law two years later. Today, the Voting...
Opinion: 48 years after MLK march, voting rights still vulnerable King’s aides defend leader’s record Some of King’s closest aides are baffled at the argument that King opposed affirmative action policies. They say the public record is clear: King openly supported such policies. ...