MLK & RFK

MLK & RFK
Author: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service/John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston, June 1963, Public Domain

Born 1925 & 1929 

Died 1968

 

This famous politician and leading civil rights activist joined together in the 1960s to fight poverty, racism & inequality. 

Though not considered friends, they shared many values and advocated together for social justice and to help those achieve the American Dream. 

Their assassinations occurred 63 days apart in 1968.

 

“…tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”