On May 4, 1956, while visiting the Gold Coast (soon-to-be Ghana), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a private speech to a group of Ghanaian parliamentarians about the global fight for freedom and justice. Dr. King’s visit symbolized the deep ties between the African American civil rights movement and African liberation struggles. He later described Ghana’s independence as a “new African dawn” and used the experience to inspire his later activism in the United States. This day highlighted the interconnectedness of freedom movements among people of African descent worldwide.
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