The congressman, one of the 'Big Six' leaders alongside Dr Martin Luther King, helped to organise the historic 1963 March on Washington and had his skull fractured by violent police as he marched in Selma
The congressman, one of the "Big Six" leaders alongside Dr Martin Luther King, was one of the organisers behind historic 1963 March on Washington in which Dr King gave his "I have a dream" speech.
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