Martin Luther King Day
Today is Martin Luther King day.
A very incredible person who was a constructive activist in the civil rights movement in the
50s and '60s until he was assassinated in 1968.
Wikipedia article
He was in prison a number of times as a result of his work.
This picture was taken shortly after King, Ira Blalock (on the left), Gordon Gibson (on the right), and some others were released from the Salem jail in 1965. As it turns out I knew Ira Blalock because he was the minister in a UU church in Wellesley that I went to for a while with a bunch of friends. And Gordon Gibson was a minister in another Boston area church who performed my first marriage in 1966 (in the MIT chapel). -- and yes, I have posted this before.