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Sep 12 2020 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, Liberation Curriculum
Aug 23 2020 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, Liberation Curriculum
On 28 August 1963 over 200,000 people took part in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Along with many other representatives of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the large crowds that evening. King's speech was the final one that day. He spoke of the...
Aug 18 2020 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, Liberation Curriculum
Aug 11 2020 | Posted In: King Institute
Matt Herron, an activist, acclaimed photojournalist of the civil rights movement, and friend of the King Institute, passed away on 7 August. Born in 1931, Herron earned a B.A. in English at Princeton University and was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, when he first gained experience...
Aug 4 2020 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, Liberation Curriculum
After violating the court injunction against protests, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested and jailed on 12 March 1963. While in jail, King composed a response to Birmingham's white clergymen's criticism of the protests.
