(306) Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "Walk to Freedom," Detroit, 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads an estimated crowd of 125,000 civil rights activists down Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit during the historic "Walk to Freedom."

Left to right: Walter Reuther, president of the UAW; Benjamin McFall, co-chairman of the Detroit Council for Human Rights; Commander George Harge; James Del Rio; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); and the Rev. C.L. Franklin, co-chairman of the Detroit Council for Human Rights.