The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, ...

Fort Myers and the Fort Myers chapter of The National Organization of Women organized a Pass the Mic event on Sunday ...

For 30 years, a recording of Martin Luther King Jr's speech at Western Michigan University was lost. Then in 1997, it was found.

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

From the Southside to the Peninsula, Dr. King’s influence on our area is visible. In Norfolk, an 83-foot granite Martin Luther King Monument towers over the intersection of Chur ...

Hong Kong protests: march to the US consulate ends ... to the American civil rights movement, as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social ...

On Feb. 27, second grade students in Mallory Courtney’s class at Slaughter Elementary School learned about the life and work ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s bold quest to fight for peace across the nation and for all people to be treated equally led to the Civil Rights Movement. Although his acts of selflessness cemented his name ...