Father Quote by Jean Marsh

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

— George Takei

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the…

— Lucy McBath

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

— Mitt Romney

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

— Al Sharpton

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to…

— Nicole Beharie

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

— Robert Patrick

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of…

— Marty Stuart

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was…

— Susan Burton

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

— Charley Pride

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association…

— Andre Braugher