The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights...
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advocating voting rights for African Americans in the United States. King delivered the speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln...
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all were called off (despite criticism from Rustin). Their Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, held at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, featured key...
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Martin Luther King Jr. (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
Ella Baker. King led the SCLC until his death. The SCLC's 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was the first time King addressed a national audience. Harry...
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such as the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington DC on May 17, 1957, and events in Little Rock and Montgomery. Robeson calls for concerted action...
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Ruby Bridges (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
Ruby Bridges Hall," Online NewsHour, February 18, 1997 Susannah Abbey. Freedom Hero: Ruby Bridges Ellen Blue, St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist...
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spoke alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. He traveled 25,000 miles a year throughout the country speaking...
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version of the Lord's Prayer. It also contains what many consider to be the central tenets of Christian discipleship. The setting for the sermon is given...
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March: Justice or Else Million Woman March Nashville sit-ins Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Royal Ice Cream sit-in Selma to Montgomery marches Silent Parade...
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song circa 1936 under the title "Come By Here", inspired, he said, by a prayer he heard delivered by "Mother Duffin", a storefront evangelist in Portland...
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