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Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ... received a letter from LUTHER THOMAS, Surgeon of the Twenty-sixth regiment New-Jersey Volunteers ...
Leah Weber on Monday had a short but touching tribute to her husband, Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion ... In Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York, pressure on the A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction unions—the most notorious ...
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Read More: 10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. While the New York Times did occasionally cover New York’s myriad civil rights protests, the paper typically did so without ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...