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...He studied theology, obtained a doctorate and was working as a minister at a Baptist church when, in 1955 at the age of 26, he was called to head the organisation that planned the famous Montgomery bus boycott...
...Alston painted it to capture the mood and events of the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6), a non-violent protest against racial segregation on public transportation, and a pivotal moment in the larger...
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...For a denim challenge, he decided to use the other contestants’ fabric scraps to create Arctic-inspired motifs on a Montgomery jacket and the skirt of a dress. “I’ve never seen it before....
...Bruce Castor, Jr: The longtime prosecutor and former Republican politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania — the same area Dean represents — was appointed solicitor-general of Pennsylvania, a role he...
...After a federal court ruled that the protests were legal, National Guard members escorted the protesters across the same bridge and on a 50-mile trek to Montgomery, Alabama, in what is often regarded as...
...gripped towns and cities across the US this week distinguishes them from previous periods of unrest stoked by racial tensions, such as the protests in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr...
...Martin Luther King Jr called that act “a second emancipation”. But it had been achieved only at a price....
...Bill Rauch’s brisk staging nonetheless carries us along here as Johnson butts heads with Martin Luther King Jr....
...from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, plus DuVernay’s searing documentary 13th (2016), which highlights race, justice and mass incarceration in the US....
...He was also a lead figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches....
...The Montgomery bus boycott was taking place next door in Alabama and the civil rights movement was gaining momentum....
...Before that, he spent seven years in equity research roles at Elijiah Asset Management and Montgomery Securities....
...On March 25 1965, Dr Martin Luther King Jr celebrated the end of the five-day protest march he had led from Selma....
...James Montgomery, Mr Jackson’s lawyer, told reporters in Chicago that his client was “Senate Candidate 5”....
...He observed the inaugurations of Truman and Eisenhower, listened to Edward Murrow’s denunciation of Joseph McCarthy, went to Montgomery, Alabama to hear Martin Luther King preach, and was near Robert Kennedy...
...Listening to Obama speak, Schama hears Cicero mingled with Martin Luther King, Jr. He is, writes Schama, “the fruit of [King’s] planting; the pay-off of his sacrifice”....
...Marcel Groen, the chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee, is feeling good....
...The year after their marriage, when the black seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to whites, Martin Luther King led the Montgomery bus boycott....
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