Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... During his short career, King lead marches across the South, organized boycotts and protests, was arrested and stood beside President Lyndon B.

Sixty years later, several hundred people returned to where 20,000 people heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. encourage leaders to do better.

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr ... was ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure of ... prompting President Lyndon B Johnson to deploy the National Guard to assist local authorities. The unrest resulted in 12 deaths in the ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a podium on the steps of the Lincoln memorial delivered his most famous speech and a line that would come to define the goals of the Civil Rights Movement.

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

This year, on the birthday of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., it’s more ... having taken place just a few months before President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.