On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks who died last October at age 92 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to whites. (For perspective, this was just over a year after Brown vs. the Board of Education.) 26-year-old Martin Luther King, a local pastor and member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was drawn into the ensuing bus boycott and, as they say, the rest is history.
When the President reflected on some of the legends that have matriculated through HBCU's - Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King, WEB Dubois -I thought about how important and critically necessary these institutions have been to the fabric of our nation.
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He has voted against so many bills--from food stamps to the Martin Luther King holiday to practically every arms-control treaty--that critics nicknamed him "Senator No, " a moniker he cherishes.
Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city.
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And so what we've done is we've heard some stories, shared -- Dr. Height has shared with us what it was like meeting Martin Luther King when he was a 15-year-old at Morehouse, visiting there.
Clooney was handcuffed and led away into a Secret Service van along with his 78-year-old father, Nick, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), Rep Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Mass.), Martin Luther King III and NAACP president Ben Jealous, among others.
To publicise their denial in the South, Martin Luther King led a 50-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
Six years ago, President Obama -- then a senator from Illinois -- spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Visit the Safe House Black History Museum (call for an appointment, 334-624-2030), created from two shotgun homes, one of which hid Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
But "Rize" -- the title derives from the "rise up" phrase in Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech -- goes back to the phenomenon's roots, and shows what drives the dancers to dance as they do.
The Monday before the match-up was Martin Luther King Day, so Jennings was off anyway.
Mr. WALLIS: No, I haven't endorsed - you know Martin Luther King, Jr. helps me on this.
Long-lost video showing Martin Luther King's killer in police custody has been posted online, 45 years to the day after the civil rights leader's murder.
The Democrats became embroiled in a row over race following Hillary Clinton's suggestion that Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King played equal roles in the civil-rights era.
When Hadiya Pendleton and her classmates visited Washington three weeks ago, they spent time visiting the monuments -- including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Senator LINCOLN CHAFEE (Republican, Rhode Island): Well, we--the goal is as Martin Luther King said in his famous essay is to live in this world house somehow together.
Obama finished his speech with another message not just to the newly minted Morehouse grads, but to all Americans -- a message based on Martin Luther King's refusal to be afraid.
In 1963, when he was nineteen, he and his mother attended the civil-rights march on Washington organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Forty-five years to the day after Martin Luther King spoke of his dream, America will take a giant leap towards the realisation of that great call for justice.
Tamerlan also protested at Friday prayers in January, around the Martin Luther King Day holiday, when a speaker compared the civil-rights leader with the Prophet Muhammad, Mr. Vali said.
Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Day parade, while four were injured when gunfire rang out after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras.
Obama infused his speech with references to two assassinated American icons -- President Abraham Lincoln and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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Writing for the Post in 1960, Robinson compared his own experience with "turning the other cheek" with the nonviolent confrontation of the civil-rights movement espoused by his friend, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in early April, and a coast-to-coast rage set America's cities on fire.
Obama, the first African-American president and the 17th to win a second term, used a pair of Bibles in Monday's ceremony -- one from Abraham Lincoln, the other from Martin Luther King Jr.
Joseph Lowery has been a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1950s, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King.
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