BOSTON -- The 1965 Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast. Sixty years on, much of ...

The annual "Freedom Rally and March" as part of the Rochester Branch of the NAACP's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "We Have a Dream Celebration" was held Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in downtown ...

Hundreds of people hold a rally at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday, April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured ...

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a ...

MOMENT IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY. SO THIS IS THAT SIGN COMMEMORATING THE FREEDOM RALLY BACK. 60 YEARS AGO. AND TODAY, REVEREND DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. S SON WALKED THOSE SAME CITY STREETS ALONG ...

Doreen Wade from Cambridge raises her fist in the air at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which ...

A woman holds a sign as hundreds of people hold a rally at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday, April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston ...