The Embrace

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King met in Boston in 1952, and The Embrace honors their love and leadership. Inspired by a photograph of the Kings embracing, it reflects the power of collective action, the role of women in the freedom movement, and the forging of solidarity out of mutual empathy and vulnerability. Beneath it, the 1965 Freedom Plaza honors civil rights and social justice leaders active in Greater Boston from 1950 to 1975. Many of them marched alongside Dr. King in 1965 when he led a crowd of 22,000 from Roxbury to the Parkman Bandstand, where he called on Boston to confront racism and economic injustice and to foster a beloved community.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States