A West Philly Festival is honoring MLK Jr.’s Freedom Now Rally this Sunday

A West Philly Festival is honoring MLK Jr.’s Freedom Now Rally this Sunday

Love Philly? So do we. Let’s be friends. Sign up for the Billy Penn newsletter today. On Aug. 3 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King came to Philadelphia and drew a crowd of over 10,000 people at the corner of 40th and Lancaster. The rally took place only three days before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed. “I came here from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in the South to tell you, ‘You are somebody. Let us have a sense of somebody-n…