Watson Mere (Haitian American) ‘My Brother’s Keeper’, 2017
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High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where he proposed the school district honor MLK, Jr. A student took this photo of Brownlee when he returned to the school for help. April 3, 71
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Garment workers at the Abe Schrader Shop listen to funeral services for MLK on a portable radio, April 9, 1968
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'Who said we are satisfied?' High School picketer. Unidentified photographer, Houston, Texas, 1965
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1960. Martin Luther King is pulling burnt cross from his lawn, with his little son at his side.
Image by: Corbis
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Benedict Fernandez, Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., Central Park, New York, 1968
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy walk toward their arrest, Birmingham, Alabama, April 16, 1963
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Martin Luther King Sr., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , and Martin Luther King III. Photo by Richard Avedon
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Bob Wood: “A Negro woman watches as Ku Klux Klansmen walk in Montgomery, Alabama prior to cross burning rally that night, Nov 24, 1956”
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Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, c. 1905
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I'm the optimistic kind, but I've to do lots of reflection and thinking in order to validate my feelings of optimism, and I always wonder, will we ever get there, the destination MLK spoke off, (end to Racism, Materialism & Militarism).
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