He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...

Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wearing lei from Hawaii during the Selma-to-Montgomery marches are now on ...

A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the ...

Before Lerone Martin joined Stanford in 2022 as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, he spent years in St. Louis asking how religion moves through public life: ...

SELMA, Ala. (WCSC) — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital in Montgomery on this day in 1965. Nearly 3,000 people participated in the ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The White House issued an official proclamation recognizing Martin ...

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. Even though Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s alma mater, ...