![American religious and Civil Rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968) speaks at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 3, 1964.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_fafd70fdb432407981e86b4694a981b9mv2-550x550.webp)
King, Nashville, and the Emergence of Nonviolent Direct Action
The keynote address Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at Fisk University in 1964 drew crowds from all over the city, including some of the great Civil Rights icons in American history