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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Vedic era (about 500 BCE). For example, hymn 10.22.25 in the Rig Veda uses the words Satya (truthfulness) and Ahimsa in a prayer to deity Indra; later, the...

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...

parents ran a strict schedule on Sundays; they locked him in his room for silent prayer, a time so boring that he almost begged to do homework. His father...

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...

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...

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...

rights concerns. The fight for civil and human rights focused on issues of freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom to emigrate, punitive psychiatry...

his grandmother's experiences as a Freedom Rider. Civil rights movement in popular culture Christian child's prayer § Spirituals David Spener (2016). We...

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...

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,...

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

Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in...

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

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

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...

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

called for a citywide prayer service on September 12. Even President Dwight Eisenhower attempted to de-escalate the situation by summoning Faubus for a meeting...

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

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...

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

the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. He was the chairman and one of the key organizers of the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In September...

Stanton, Freedom Walk: Mississippi Or Bust, University Press of Mississippi, 2003 Activists take walk to remember, Gadsden Times, April 24, 2008 Freedom Walk...