First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

The celebration of life is being held Friday, March 6, and includes former presidents, music legends and thousands of adoring ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination ...

Christopher Wilson - Chair, Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History The Reverend Jesse Jackson attends an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the March on ...

The morning of Martin Luther King Day, my wife and I explained Dr. King's legacy to our children. We told them how he was the greatest leader of the Civil Rights Movement, which fought to guarantee ...

These historic addresses are of great importance as they document the personal and political development of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in Atlanta before becoming a ...

I was thirteen when I watched the Rodney King beating on the evening news with my father. The grainy footage was relentless and impossible. I credit that evening as my political awakening. I asked ...

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a conference. His legacy was celebrated on the BYU campus. (Public Domain) Monday, Jan. 19, is a national holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day; a day set aside and ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

The White House issued a proclamation recognizing the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday late Monday evening, following criticism from activists across the country. “Inspired by the tenets ...

President Trump issued a flimsy, ill-defined proclamation on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 8:15 p.m., after hours of silence—and criticism from the NAACP. “Dr. King pioneered a movement that would go ...