(Original Caption) 11/20/1963-Kiamesha Lake, NY: George Maislen (L), President of the United Synagogue of America, presents the Solomon Schechter Award to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (C), “for translating the prophetic vision of Abraham Lincoln into a living reality.” They are standing with Jewish Theological Seminary professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, at the golden jubilee convention of the United Synagogue.African American integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., right, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, receives a glass bowl inscribed to him as a “citizen of Atlanta, with respect and admiration,” from Rabbi Jacob Rothschild of the Temple Synagogue in Atlanta on Jan. 27, 1965. (AP Photo)African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968, centre) listening to a transistor radio in the front line of the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to campaign for proper registration of black voters, 23rd March 1965. Among the other marchers are: Ralph Abernathy (1926 – 1990, second from left), Ralph Bunche (1903 – 1971, third from right) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972, far right). The first march ended in violence when marchers were attacked by police. The second was aborted after a legal injunction was issued. (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (1929 – 1968, centre) in the front line of the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to campaign for proper registration of black voters, 23rd March 1965. From third left: Ralph Abernathy (1926 – 1990), King, Ralph Bunche (1903 – 1971) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972). The first march ended in violence when marchers were attacked by police. The second was aborted after a legal injunction was issued. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)Coretta Scott King leads thousands of protestors through Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers, 8th April 1968. She is leading the march in the absence of her husband, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, who was assassinated a few days earlier. In the centre (from left to right) are singer Harry Belafonte, King’s children Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, and Dexter, his widow Coretta Scott King, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the Reverend Andrew Young and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)UNSPECIFIED – MARCH 13: “Leaders of the protest, holding flags, from left Bishop James Shannon, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.” Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, February 6, 1968. Published February 7, 1968. (Photo by Charles Del Vecchio/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
