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Delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C. Civil Rights March. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement, was an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, and advocated for using nonviolent resistance, inspired by ...
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom used the area for its Civil Rights rally. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered to a crowd of 250,000 people. On October 21, 1967, 100,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters met at the pool and memorial to begin the March on the Pentagon.
A statue of a freed slave kneeling at the feet of Abraham Lincoln was removed from downtown Boston on December 29, 2020. Critics said it downplays the role African Americans had in the Civil War. The Boston statue, created by Thomas Ball, is a replica of the original Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC.
Approaching two years since being vandalized, the Martin Luther King Jr. statue is back at the Freedom Corner. Located at the intersection of Second Street and Capitol Avenue, a crew of workers ...
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A man was arrested Monday on criminal damage to state supported property charge after the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Springfield was vandalized.
Statues of American slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Francis Scott Key were also vandalised or removed. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to the Huffington Post , by October 2020 over a hundred Confederate symbols had been "removed, relocated or renamed", based on data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Damage to a recently vandalized Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue in Denver, Colorado is shown. Bronze artworks stolen from the memorial, plus seven bronze pieces taken from a nearby fountain ...