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Martin Luther King Jr. delivering the speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C., Civil Rights March. The speech was drafted with the assistance of Stanley Levison and Clarence Benjamin Jones [27] in Riverdale, New York City. Jones has said that "the logistical preparations for the march were so burdensome that the speech was not a priority for us ...
He had a leading role in the session and presented a book on Basavanna to Gandhi. Manjappa was a freedom fighter who became popularly known as the "Gandhi of Karnataka". [3] [4] He wrote more than 40 books including an autobiography. Manjappa died on 3 January 1947. [2]
Civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr.,Walter Reuther, and Roy Wilkins photographed with President Kennedy after the 1963 March on Washington. Alexander Solzhenitsyn [13] and Andrei Sakharov [14] are among those who suffered for speaking out against the USSR.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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 ...
1967: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s anti-Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church in New York City. 1967: Vive le Québec libre ("Long live free Quebec"), a phrase ending a speech by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal, Canada. The slogan became popular among those wishing to show their support for ...
1. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” 2. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” 3. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the ...
In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. [3] He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, [4] and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) [1] that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty, [5 ...