Byron Allen
speaker
1,049 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Byron Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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who raised over $50 million to build the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Change.
She's the one who, working with Stevie Wonder and Senator Ted Kennedy, made Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
The only American to have his birthday be a national holiday, and we have to hold on to that.
And she's the one who sued James Earl Ray for $100 to prove who actually organized the murder of Martin Luther King.
She's also the one
who said to, and I love this story, and she told me this story.
She said, now she was the one who said to Martin, we need to come up with a strategy because we're having some serious issues here with the civil rights movement.
We need someone who can lay out strategy that will work.
She said, I want you, Martin, to talk to Bayard Rustin.
Sit down with Bayard Rustin.
And Martin said- March on Washington.
Right?
That's where that came from.
Right?
She said, who is Bayard Rustin?
And Coretta said, he is brilliant.
He's black.
He's gay.
He's a communist.
He went to Europe and he just came back.
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