On a rainy day in late April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury.
Sixty years later — on a similarly rainy day — thousands gathered at Trinity Church in the Back Bay and marched to Boston Common in commemoration of that monumental event.
Anniversaries are often a time for celebration, but Martin Luther King III told GBH News that Saturday’s remembrance of the Freedom March was more about re-engagement…