Martin Luther King Jr., center, leads a group of civil rights workers and residents of Selma, Ala., in prayer on Feb. 1, 1965, after they were arrested on charges of parading without a permit. (BH/Associated Press)Amid President Trump’s escalating war on NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem, photos of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. kneeling in prayer — and protest — resurfaced online over the weekend. On Saturday, the nonprofit Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change tweeted one of the first images, of King down on his left knee in Selma, Ala., on Feb. 1, 1965. To his left is friend and fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, head bowed in prayer. Many are "more dedicated to order than to justice," offended by kneeling during the Anthem & not by racism & modern-day lynching.

Source: Washington Post September 24, 2017 22:30 UTC