MLK Photo Essay

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks with people after delivering a sermon on May 13, 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. spending time with his son, Martin lll, and daughter Yolanda.

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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is shown at a 1963 news conference here, in which he said that negotiations to end Birmingham’s racial strife were still underway.

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King speaks to a packed crowd at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1964, urging them to continue their demonstrations. Nashville saw seven days of racial demonstrations that began April 27, 1963. King arrived at the airport and told newsmen that he had no been asked to participate in the demonstrations.  

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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. waves to participants in the Civil Rights Movement’s March on Washington from the Lincoln Memorial. It was from this spot that he delivered his famous, ‘I Have a Dream’ speech on August 28, 1963.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, James Farmer on January 18, 1964.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. meets his parishioners at Ebenezer Baptist Church after Sunday services in 1964. His father, the main pastor of the church, stands behind him.

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Martin Luther KIng, Jr. serves pieces of chicken to his young sons, Marty and Dexter at this 1964 Sunday dinner.

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King and his wife, Coretta, march with other civil rights activists through a neighborhood in Selma in 1965.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African-Americans. Besides King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

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