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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

Fortnite Is Letting You Relive MLK's 'I Have A Dream' Speech

Aug 27, 2021
The video game's new feature takes players back in time to experience Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 speech. But some people worry it sends the wrong message about the civil rights leader.
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StoryCorps
A family photo of Bettye, Miriam and Edwin Pratt together in 1966.

Her Dad Was A Civil Rights Leader. She Remembers His Assassination

Mar 22, 2019
Edwin Pratt, the then-head of the Seattle Urban League, was assassinated in 1969 at his home. At StoryCorps, his daughter and her godmother remember him and the night he was shot.
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National
The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta is open for the first time in nearly a month, after a grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation made up for the lack of federal funds from the partial government shutdown.

Martin Luther King Jr. National Park Reopens For Holiday, Thanks To A Private Grant

Jan 21, 2019
Without money from the Delta Air Lines Foundation, Atlanta's Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park would have been closed for the King holiday, a National Park Service spokesman told NPR.
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News
Rev. William Barber with the Poor People's Campaign speaks to a group after they prayed inside of the Capitol Rotunda in protest of the GOP tax overhaul in December.

The Poor People's Campaign Seeks To Complete Martin Luther King's Final Dream

May 14, 2018
The 1968 Poor People's Campaign lasted 42 days. The new campaign vows 40 days of nonviolent direct action to focus on issues that activists say are linked to poverty, including systemic racism.
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1968: How We Got Here
Marks is now a stop on Mississippi's Freedom Trail highlighting civil rights history. Local officials hope to draw tourists to the area as a way to spark more business.

How A Mule Train From Marks, Miss., Kicked Off MLK's Poor People Campaign

May 13, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. chose Marks as a starting point for the economic justice fight because of the entrenched poverty he saw there. Today, poverty remains a challenge in Marks.
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1968: How We Got Here
The family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., walk in the funeral procession in Atlanta on April 9, 1968. From left: daughter Yolanda, 12; King's brother A.D. King; daughter Bernice, 5; widow Coretta Scott King; Rev. Ralph Abernathy; so

After MLK's Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work

Apr 08, 2018
Four days after her husband was killed, Coretta Scott King led a march in Memphis. The act reflected her role as a partner in the struggle for civil rights. "I was impelled to come," she said.
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1968: How We Got Here
P. Moses, a Memphis organizer with Black Lives Matter, says black citizens are still trying to be treated with dignity.

The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King's Last Cause For Economic Justice

Mar 28, 2018
They wanted better working conditions and higher pay, but they needed help strategizing. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis to help.
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History
Cleophus Smith (left), autographs a poster at the National Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. The poster is a reproduction of the signs he and Alvin Turner (center) and Baxter Leach (right), carried when they were part of t

NAACP Honors Memphis Sanitation Workers Who Went On Strike In 1968

Jan 15, 2018
Some 1,300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike 50 years ago to protest poor working conditions. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about them a day before his assassination.
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The Salt
A bus driver is all alone as his empty bus moves through downtown Montgomery, Ala., in April 1956 during the boycott. Georgia Gilmore's cooking helped fund an alternative system of transportation that arose for the city's African-Americans during the boy

Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

Jan 15, 2018
Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.
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Goats and Soda
Kennedy Odede was living on the streets when he first read about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed The Life Of A Street Kid In Kenya

Jan 15, 2017
Kennedy Odede was living on the streets, getting into fights. He was looking for hope. And he found it in the story of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Two-Way
Rep. Louis Stokes was the dean of the Ohio congressional delegation until he stepped down in 1999.

Louis Stokes, Ohio's First African-American U.S. Congressman, Dies At 90

Aug 19, 2015
Stokes represented Ohio for 15 terms. He also served as chairman of the House select committee investigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Two-Way
Rep. Louis Stokes was the dean of the Ohio Congressional delegation until he stepped down in 1999.

Louis Stokes, Ohio's First African-American U.S. Congressman, Dies At 90

Aug 19, 2015
Stokes represented Ohio for 15 terms. He also served as chairman of the House select committee investigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Code Switch
The film <em>Selma </em>stars David Oyelowo (center) as Martin Luther King Jr., and focuses on several unsung activists in civil rights history. But critics say it distorts the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson and others.

'Selma' Backlash Misses The Point

Jan 12, 2015
Historian Peniel Joseph says Selma is the first major film about civil rights history that properly honors the contributions of the movement's African-American foot soldiers.
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