Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in ...
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

After studying Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience in India, he joined the 1960s civil rights movement and became an architect of it as a nonviolent struggle. By Robert D. McFadden Before Martin ...

New film shows Andrew Young embracing the civil rights work that wasn’t glamorous

The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no ...

Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr. Aide, Confirmed Dead Four Years After Passing

The late Rep. John Lewis noted in a 2015 interview that King had a great deal of trust in Douglas' ability to coordinate the ...

Johnson: My dream for America

I dream of an America where we choose reconciliation over revenge, dialogue over division, and justice over violence.
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Jesse L. Douglas: Remembering MLK’s close aide whose demise in 2021 has now been confirmed

Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away in 2021 at age 90. His daughter, Adrienne Douglas Vaulx, said he died in a nursing home in Charlotte, North Carolina ...
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Shooting is ‘clarion call’ to Penn Center chief: ‘We need to take back our island’

Executive director Robert Adams says Martin Luther King Jr., who frequented the center, may provide some guidance about today ...