American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King ... desegregation plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights ...

Thousands of people took to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take in history and reflect on the past.

Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., accused the Black pastor at President Trump’s inauguration of ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. expressed their emotional response to President Trump’s decision to declassify records ...

On Jan. 22, as Statehouse police restricted the speech of protesting students, Sen. Jerry Cirino and his colleagues held a ...

Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., accused the Black pastor at President Trump’s inauguration of misusing the slain civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

He was also imprisoned multiple times, one of which inspired his famed "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" justifying civil disobedience to defy "unjust" laws. He helped usher in major legislative ...

While her father’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a “call to conscience” for Christians, it also speaks of “integrating prayers about civil disobedience and freedom being demanded by ...

He believed that the key to achieving racial equality was through nonviolent civil disobedience, public demonstrations, and legal challenges. His famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963 ...