To honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we look at images of the influential leader and the civil rights movement traveling through Boston and Cambridge in the 1960s. King visited Boston in 1965 and spoke to politicians and residents about many of the city’s racial issues, including segregation. The march he lead from Roxbury to Boston Common was his first in the northern states. His inspiring speeches conveyed his passion for equality, justice and peace. - Leanne Burden Seidel and Lisa Tuite
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When I was 16, my mother took me to Hempstead to a little meeeting hall or church where we heard, from the front row, Dr. King speak. When he was assassinated, I was living in a dorm at my college in Boston and cried. I feel that he was, without question, the greatest American who ever lived - one of the greatest people in the world in modern times.