In honor of Martin Luther King and all who fought for civil rights, equality, and integration

From the Associated Press article "Results of AP - Ipsos Poll on MLK"

March on Washington, AP photo.

"In the Footsteps Of Dr. King," from the Washington Post, lists a variety of "destinations marked by King's work and redolent with his memory."

ANNISTON, Ala., May 15, 1961 Bus Carrying "Freedom Riders" Burns. Smoke pours out of a bus in which "Freedom Riders" seeking to test bus station segregation in South were traveling near Anniston, Ala. The bus was attacked by anti-integrationists. (AP Photo). This NPR story has an extended (chilling) excerpt from the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice describing what happened in Anniston. And the book was reviewed in yesterday's Washington Post, by Roger Wilkins, in this piece, "Mission to Dixie: How a band of brave and principled Americans took on Jim Crow -- by bus."

Adrienne Washington, a columnist for the Washington Times, has an excellent column about the latest issues and concerns about Marion Barry, civil rights activist, DC activist, one-time School Board member, Mayor, and now City Councilmember. Today's Post also has a good article about this topic, by Yolanda Woodlee and Lori Montgomery, "Sobriety a Struggle for Barry."

Martin Luther King Day editorial cartoon, R.J. Matson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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