For me, the celebration of MLK and the civil rights movement need not be dampened because we still have much work to do. Instead, it can serve as a reminder of victories and successes along the path to equity, writes Raynard S. Kington.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building on March 25, 1965.
In 1987, when the country was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, I was a faculty fellow at DuBois College House at the University of Pennsylvania. The bicentennial came just one year after the infamousSupreme Court decision upholding the Georgia law that made intimate homosexual relations between consenting adults illegal. The decision’s concurring opinion was written by Chief Justice Warren Burger, who chaired the commission in charge of the celebrations in 1987.
Thurgood Marshall, first Black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, is photographed on his first day in court wearing judicial robes on Oct. 2, 1967. He said this Civil rights leader Martin Luther King addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech on Aug. 28, 1963.
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