This video reflects on the last minutes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, recounting the events leading up to his ...

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

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has died at 84.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis and maintained ...

In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. CBS News Chicago spoke with him 50 years later about his memories ...

John Lewis– but how well do you know the story behind the 26-year-old martyr whose death sparked Bloody Sunday? On this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights champion, is dead. He was 84. The two men had worked together since 1965, when they met in Selma, ...

Did Rev. Jesse Jackson die? What we know on civil rights activist icon's death, work with Martin Luther King Jr., the Rainbow ...

Today's picture of the day, that was captured by late AP photographer Charles Kelly, shows Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. flanked by other civil rights leaders. The image was taken just a day before King ...

At least eight guns were fired during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebratory event that left a 29-year-old woman dead.

Jackson was touted as “King’s successor” after the civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where the two ...