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Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MEd, EdD) Yale University (JD) John B. King Jr. (born January 5, 1975) is an American educator, civil servant, and former state and federal government official who is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). [1] He previously served as President & CEO of The Education Trust, a ...
e. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
My most joyous memory associated with Dr. King came on Nov. 2, 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday on the third Monday in ...
Bash and John King in 2009. From 1998 to 2007, Bash was married to Jeremy Bash, who would become CIA chief of staff and Department of Defense chief of staff under President Barack Obama. [14] [15] In 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King. [16] [17] Bash gave birth to a son in 2011; she and King divorced in 2012. [18] [19]
Gandhi Peace Prize. Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of one of world history’s great leaders.From 1957 to 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled 6 million miles, gave over 2,500 speeches ...
Nashville sit-ins. James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. [1] During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...