January 16, 2017

  • Civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talks with U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law July 2, 1964. (CNS photo/Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy LBJ Library)

"Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world."

- Martin Luther King, Jr., from "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," a speech given at Riverside Church in New York City April 4, 1967