The US civil rights movement saw many defining moments throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with significant achievements in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, and in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act. Throughout this era, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became synonymous with the social and political struggle in pursuit of equality and freedom for all people to “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Throughout this time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. impacted millions of lives during his travels across the country, sometimes through simple acts of kindness to strangers.
In 1967, one of those strangers was a young flight attendant on a United Airlines flight between New York and Atlanta, our Co-Founder and Chairman, Nancy E. Meyers…