involved interstate buses driving into the Deep South to challenge segregation that had persisted despite recent Supreme Court rulings. In some cities, the activists were arrested and beaten.King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy are taken by a police officer after they led a line of demonstrators into the business section of Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1963.
King watches President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.King is greeted in Baltimore in October 1964, after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time, he was the youngest person ever to receive the award.on March 25, 1965.
In March 1968, King displays a poster to be used for an upcoming Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign was set to begin on April 22, 1968.King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead a march on behalf of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 28, 1968. Two sanitation workers in the city had been killed by a malfunctioning garbage truck, and King came to Memphis to support the strike.
Stop showing Civil Rights/MLK photos in Black & White....It wasn't that long ago!
Wrong. MLK's approach was to use 'violence' that the state would predictably use on him & his people for preaching a message of equality non-violently to show the world the fate of minorities in the US. Funny how almost nobody gets this.
Nonviolent replies led to the way white folks try to treat black folks to this day.....
'Dr. King couldn't handle today's horrifying reality, as our reality couldn't handle Dr. King the same.' - Mike Low
post these pictures in color next time
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