Community members, organizations, and faith leaders gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Rochester on Saturday ...

Local News Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally “I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that.

The original protest rally in 1965 brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast, a place Martin Luther King Jr. knew well from his time earning a doctorate in theology from Boston University ...

On April 23, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent civil rights leaders led a defining moment in the civil rights movement, emphasizing the urgent need for systemic change, powered ...

Martin Luther King III gives a speech at the No Kings Day protest in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.

Martin Luther King Jr. often spoke of creating “the beloved community,” a society in which “men can live together without fear,” as he wrote in a 1966 essay.

It starts with something called love," Martin Luther King III said. The post Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally appeared first on Boston.com.

Boston celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK as advocates urge continued fight against injustice Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination ...