On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of ...

Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil ...

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

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Demonstrators participate in rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators participate in a rally at Freedom Plaza ...

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I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism ...

BOSTON -- The 1965 Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast. Sixty years on ...

The rally included Martin Luther King III as well as other local and state leaders across a variety of sectors.