The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights...

advocating voting rights for African Americans in the United States. King delivered the speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln...

Ella Baker. King led the SCLC until his death. The SCLC's 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was the first time King addressed a national audience. Harry...

all were called off (despite criticism from Rustin). Their Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, held at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, featured key...

such as the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington DC on May 17, 1957, and events in Little Rock and Montgomery. Robeson calls for concerted action...

March: Justice or Else Million Woman March Nashville sit-ins Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Royal Ice Cream sit-in Selma to Montgomery marches Silent Parade...

Ruby Bridges Hall," Online NewsHour, February 18, 1997 Susannah Abbey. Freedom Hero: Ruby Bridges Ellen Blue, St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist...

version of the Lord's Prayer. It also contains what many consider to be the central tenets of Christian discipleship. The setting for the sermon is given...

spoke alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. He traveled 25,000 miles a year throughout the country speaking...

song circa 1936 under the title "Come By Here", inspired, he said, by a prayer he heard delivered by "Mother Duffin", a storefront evangelist in Portland...

November 28, 1939) is an American retired minister who was involved with the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s. Zwerg was born in Appleton, Wisconsin where...

August 2013. Alabama portal History portal Bloody Tuesday (1964) Great Pilgrimage, 1913 suffrage march in the UK James Karales (major photographer of the...

were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United...

wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. King repeated the phrase...

on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where he delivered his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream". King became Time's Man of the Year for 1963 and won the...

eulogy at Williams' funeral in 1996, praising him for "his courage and for his commitment to freedom," and concluding that "The sacrifices he made, and...

history or helped bring about change (such as 2013's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom or The Butler), Selma doesn't feel like freeze-dried hagiography. Peter...

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge...

in an altercation with a white property owner the family went into hiding for a period. King died in 1933. King (2014), p. 69 Jonathan DeBurca Butler,...

Letters, and Speeches (2005). In 2009, Evers-Williams received the National Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Ebony...

Maher. Beginning July 2011 Michael Eric Dyson became a political analyst for MSNBC. In May 2018, he participated in the Munk debate on political correctness...

Foundation. Retrieved 4 November 2015. Seeger, Bob (1989). Everybody Says Freedom. New York u.a: Norton. pp. 87–100. ISBN 0393306046. Lewis, John (1998)...

filibuster, Johnson contends for election against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls...

observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial...

King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to...

Emmett Till. Accompanying written materials for the series, Eyes on the Prize and Voices of Freedom (for the second time period), exhaustively explore...

to reinforce their shared identity and communicate their demands for equity. Freedom Singing, a congressional style of singing that often uses church...

Court's desegregation decisions "null and void". May 17 – The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C., at which Martin Luther King Jr. gives his...

Segregation Myth: The Harlem Nine and New York City Schools" in Freedom north: Black freedom struggles outside the South, 1940–1980" (PDF). Palgrave Macmillan...

flew to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as the start of his Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca obligatory for every Muslim who is able to do so. He was delayed in Jeddah...