Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, WYPR News collected stories from listeners and readers. Click above to…

Bob Ross, chair of the Prince Georges County branch of the NAACP, was 19, living in West Philadelphia in August 1963. He had just come home from working…

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a commencement address to the graduates of Morgan State College in June 1958 that contained some of the stirring…

Trudi McGowan was 36 in August 1963, black, living in Pimlico. She now lives in Edgewater, MDAll I had to do was get my clothes together because this…