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A visitor looks closely at the original copy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in ...
Sixty years after his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea, argue the work of those who marched on August 28, 1963, is not complete.
On June 26, 1985, King was arrested, along with his mother and his sister Bernice, while taking part in an anti-apartheid protest at the Embassy of South Africa in Washington, D.C. [8] On January 7, 1986, Martin Luther King III and his sisters were arrested for "disorderly conduct" by officers deployed to a Winn Dixie supermarket, which had been the subject of some protesting since September ...
On August 26, 2023, a march was held in Washington D.C on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Organizers include Martin Luther King III, his wife and Drum Major Institute president Arndrea Waters King, daughter Yolanda and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton. [163]
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: Martin Luther King III, wife Arndrea Waters King, and daughter Yolanda Renee King arrive to a vigil at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on April 4, 2022 in Washington ...
The Drum Major Foundation (later Institute) was founded in 1961 during the American Civil Rights Movement by Harry H. Wachtel, a New York City lawyer who was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. The organization became more or less defunct after King's assassination in April 1968, but was relaunched in 1999 by King's son Martin Luther III ...
The event is convened by the Kings’ Drum Major Institute and the National Action Network. Watch live: Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III mark anniversary of March on Washington at Lincoln ...
March On For Voting Rights was a mass mobilization organized by civil rights leaders in response to Senate Republicans blocking the For The People Act. [1] [2] [3] On August 28, the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic March on Washington, activists marched on cities across America to demand that the vision of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech be deferred no longer.