I was looking at some of Martin Luther King’s quotes this morning, and one of them that I hadn’t seen before that was really simple and to the point was: 'We may have all come over here on different ships, but we came over on the same boat.' I thought that was really well ...
Bayard Rustin: Why MLK’s Right-Hand Man Was Nearly Written Out of History Bayard Rustin was an indispensable force behind the civil rights movement...and openly gay. By:Thaddeus Morgan PresidentJohn F. Kennedymet with civil rights leaders before the march, voicing his fears that the event wo...
By the end of 1954, many CORE chapters were disbanded, but, according to theChicago Public Library, the organization found new dedication following theBrown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court decision made that same year. “CORE decided to channel the majority of its energies on the South,”...