Civil Rights

Almost 65 years after covering the murder trial that helped spark the Civil Rights movement, Dan Wakefield is finally gaining a fuller appreciation of the struggle.

“The LGBT worldview and the Judeo-Christian worldview are opposites. When you try to reconcile sexual license with religious liberty, those two things don’t go together.”

“It’s not a Republican or a Democrat issue. It’s a fairness issue. I think Hoosiers want to be known as fair, because we are fair.”

On an October night in 2002, before a gala fundraiser for the National Civil Rights Hall of Fame in Gary, Indiana, things got very weird.

Its Monument Circle building marks his namesake holiday with an “I Have a Dream”–themed light display.

When it was released last month, the Washington Post wrote that March “should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library.”