Boston commemorated the 1965 Freedom Rally by unveiling "Freedom March Square" and echoing civil rights activism.

The 1965 rally featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew a crowd of 20,000. At Saturday’s event, several hundred ...

BOSTON -- The 1965 Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast. Sixty years on ...

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city's segregated school system ...

Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism ...

Boston Celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally Led by MLK as Advocates Urge Continued Fight Against Injustice BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining ...