The ‘conscience of Boston’ 

Rev. Michael Haynes, Roxbury icon, MLK colleague and contemporary, dies at 92 

WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. led a march from Roxbury to Boston Common in 1965 to protest school segregation in the city, his deepest connection here was a young Roxbury minister named Michael Haynes.  They met not long after King arrived from Atlanta to pursue at doctorate at Boston University in 1951. King delivered guest(...)

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