The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 is a 2008 documentary short film created to honor the 40th annual remembrance of the life and death of Martin... 12 KB (1,304 words) - 01:40, 19 December 2023 |
National Civil Rights Museum (redirect from The Lorraine) movement portal The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 Birmingham Civil Rights Institute International Civil Rights Center and Museum site of the Greensboro... 28 KB (3,296 words) - 04:49, 20 April 2024 |
Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination in 1968. In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee to speak out on the... 20 KB (2,503 words) - 12:44, 25 January 2024 |
"charming and game and I bet he absolutely killed in the room. But he didn't really project beyond the room, nor did he much seem to be trying to." He also... 69 KB (3,650 words) - 05:46, 25 April 2024 |
United States Commission on Civil Rights (redirect from The United States Commission on Civil Rights) Commission agent who attempts to get the records." The hearing went forward with no shortage of evidence. Witness after witness testified to inappropriate interference... 26 KB (3,138 words) - 09:48, 20 January 2024 |
James Albert King (category American people of Irish descent) King (December 1864 – November 17, 1933) was the father of Martin Luther King Sr. and paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.... 3 KB (295 words) - 01:30, 10 March 2024 |
King County, Washington (redirect from History of King County, Washington) located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population was 2,269,675 in the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Washington, and the 12th-most... 57 KB (4,684 words) - 21:45, 26 April 2024 |
Selma (film) (category Films about presidents of the United States) before the 50th anniversary of the march. The film was re-released on March 20, 2015 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the historical march. The film... 71 KB (6,112 words) - 19:47, 24 March 2024 |
Big Six (activists) (category Short description is different from Wikidata) 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 States... 10 KB (1,250 words) - 14:15, 6 February 2024 |
adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his 2012 play All the Way, the film stars Bryan Cranston, who reprises his role as Johnson from the play's 2014 Broadway production... 26 KB (1,759 words) - 20:53, 23 March 2024 |
Ralph Abernathy (category 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States) inside the room getting cologne, King was shot while standing outside on the balcony. Once the shot was fired Abernathy ran out to the balcony and cradled... 60 KB (4,838 words) - 17:25, 17 April 2024 |
Safe House Black History Museum (category Pages using the Kartographer extension) homes originally built for employees of a local cotton gin. One of the houses, a three-room structure, was owned by the Burroughs family, who were local activists;... 9 KB (593 words) - 16:11, 27 March 2024 |
Nonviolence (redirect from Criticism of nonviolence) Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment... 95 KB (11,914 words) - 17:01, 18 April 2024 |
Gandhi–King Award (category Articles needing additional references from April 2023) more peaceful and just world. "The World Council of Religious Leaders". www.millenniumpeacesummit.org. Archived from the original on 2023-04-21. Retrieved... 2 KB (186 words) - 16:31, 17 February 2024 |
Boycott (2001 film) (category Cultural depictions of Martin Luther King Jr.) Wright as Martin Luther King Jr. The film, based on the book Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns, tells the story of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott... 4 KB (312 words) - 03:33, 8 March 2024 |
Birmingham campaign (redirect from The Birmingham Campaign) troubled", one of King's friends later said. After King prayed and reflected alone in his hotel room, he and the campaign leaders decided to defy the injunction... 66 KB (8,241 words) - 10:05, 22 April 2024 |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film (category Lists of documentary films) period which may vary from year to year, but generally begins the month of October of the prior year and ends in September of the award year. (This eligibility... 54 KB (1,067 words) - 23:07, 21 April 2024 |
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the American Civil Rights Movement. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Bearing the... 1 KB (71 words) - 18:49, 27 December 2023 |
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (redirect from The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom) varied from 200,000 to 300,000, but the most widely cited estimate is 250,000 people. Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black. The march... 101 KB (12,294 words) - 19:22, 14 April 2024 |
Civil rights movement (redirect from Civil rights of the United States) ed. 1997. ISBN 0-306-80792-0 Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family, from slavery to the present (2009).... 295 KB (34,006 words) - 15:48, 9 April 2024 |
Abraham, Martin and John (category Songs about the assassination of John F. Kennedy) version of the song on his 1972 album A Message from the People. Marillion released two versions in 1999. A live recording was on their Unplugged at the Walls... 14 KB (1,306 words) - 00:03, 4 March 2024 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (category Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.) The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLKML) is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), constructed and named in... 14 KB (1,384 words) - 14:13, 10 April 2024 |
Martin Luther King Jr. (redirect from A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman) lodging in his shoulder. Abernathy heard the shot from inside the motel room and ran to the balcony to find King on the floor. After emergency surgery, King... 280 KB (28,154 words) - 17:34, 22 April 2024 |
Kennedy–King College (category Two-year colleges in the United States) percent (6 of 59) of the Phi Beta Kappa graduates of the University of Chicago's Class of 1938 were among the first graduates (Class of 1936) from Woodrow... 15 KB (1,402 words) - 12:39, 7 April 2024 |
MLK/FBI (category Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation) footage of MLK between 1955 and 1968, the years of his work as a civil rights activist. It is largely chronological, showing a young MLK from 1963 until... 7 KB (622 words) - 15:52, 22 April 2024 |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (redirect from The Leadership Conference) organizational form differed from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who... 49 KB (5,724 words) - 19:51, 8 March 2024 |
Yerba Buena Gardens (category South of Market, San Francisco) of transformation.” The act of entering the fountain from the Gardens, reading of the text from North wall to East then, South Wall while beneath the... 10 KB (1,162 words) - 08:16, 9 November 2023 |
Selma to Montgomery marches (redirect from March from Selma to Montgomery) After witnessing TV coverage of "Bloody Sunday", President Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Governor George Wallace in Washington to discuss the civil rights... 110 KB (13,035 words) - 22:25, 28 March 2024 |