Retracing the Struggle-Hundreds Gather to re-enact M. King's March in MA

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Retracing the Struggle - Hundreds Gather to Re-enact Martin Luther King’s March in Boston
October 30, 2005


(AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

John Kerry, applaudes Congressman John Lewis, of Georgia, as Lewis takes the podium to speak to a crowd today at the First Church in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

Hundreds of people “gathered in Boston this afternoon to re-enact a march that Martin Luther King led 40 years ago to protest school segregation in the city.”


In April of 1965, King led marchers on a three-mile walk that ended with a rally on Boston Common. Later that year, the state Legislature passed a measure outlawing racially imbalanced schools.

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1. kick

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[MH1]

2. Video link, key quotes:

http://cbs4boston.com/video/?id=[e-mail]

JK uses the F word:

REPORTER: Thousands took part in the march from Roxbury to Boston Commons, and were urged not only to remember the struggle but to continue it, especially with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 up for reauthorization in 2007.

KERRY: We're very concerned about what the Republicans want to do to it. They're trying to put these phony provisions in it, that actually make it harder for people to vote, pretending that they're trying to stop the very thing that they've been engaged in. Which is fraud.

Also note what Lewis says just prior to that (in the news report):

...I think for the rest of my life I will be part of a struggle to redeem the soul of America.

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. Another thread related to the long civil rights fight, with treasures:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2194590
thread title: AUDIO TREASURY of Rosa Parks history & interviews, incl JOHN CONYERS

Do NOT miss listening to Rep. John Conyers speaking of his two decades with Mrs. Parks as his aide in Michigan. And there is much more, including recordings from the lady herself over the decades of her life.