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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The legacy of Samuel Wyche, a pioneering Philadelphia police detective who also served as a bodyguard for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is being kept alive through the memories of ...

RULING. WHITE’S LEGAL TEAM MAY SEEK A REVIEW BY THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT ON JANUARY 27TH. PASTOR LUTHER MARTIN OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN FIRST JURISDICTION LOST HIS PARSONAGE IN A DEVASTATING HOUSE ...

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 ...

Livestream on 1/27 at 5:30 PM ET: Creating Dr. King’s Beloved Community Through Art & Music will be at Paul Robeson House & Museum with UPenn’s MLK Symposium ...

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 ...