1957 | Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at the landmark Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, DC, one of the earliest mass rallies of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Paul Schutzer took this photograph in 1957, but it did not appear in LIFE until the April 12, 1968, issue — one week after Dr. King was assassinated.
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Read more: LIFE.com: 37 Pictures From 37 Years of LIFE Magazine, 1936-1972 | LIFE.com http://life.time.com/history/the-best-of-life-37-years-in-pictures/#ixzz3FfzCsTW9