Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Harlem Rev Snubs de Klerk

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Thursday, April 28, 1994 SOWETO—The preacher from Harlem paid no mind when the president from Pretoria made a surprise visit to a church here yesterday. While dozens of people, including some of his fellow American preachers, crowded around South African President F. W.…

  • NEW CHALLENGES FOR A NEW NATION: Sharpton Sees Lesson in South Africa Voting

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 1, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After a whirlwind, emotional visit, the Rev. Al Sharpton flew home to New York yesterday with stars in his eyes. “If only I could bring home in a bottle the hope and spirit I saw here, it would change…

  • . . . considering the import of history

    King’s “Dream” speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…

  • Feat of Clay

    (Photo by Lei Yixin) A clay model of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue that is proposed for the Mall. Related article . . . Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin