Martin Luther King Jr's Relationship With Folk Icon Joan Baez Explained

"I was dissolved in tears for the whole speech, because I'd read about nonviolence, I knew about nonviolence, but they were doing it. They were walking in the streets and they were walking to their freedom." These were the words Joan Baez used to describe the first time she watched Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver one of his monumental and unparalleled speeches on the issues of civil rights and equality (via a clip posted at Boys Who Said NO!). 

According to Biography, Baez and King developed a close friendship after he spoke at a conference she attended when she was little more than a teenager, and though he was only 27 at the time, he reportedly was able to enrapture and inspire her with words alone. For years after the fact, the two walked side-by-side in the streets and joined others in their quest to establish a new epoch in history; an epoch that would manifest Dr. King's fabled dream of liberty and justice for all. 

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