Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King’s writing that became the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” has died. When King was ...

Clarence B. Jones, a top civil rights activist and lawyer who helped write part of Dr.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. poses with Rev. Charles Rolette, Rev. Bernard White and another unidentified local minister after ...

Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...

BOSTON - On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Sixty years later, it continues to inspire. "Dr. King ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - In the spring of 1963, protests against racial segregation were intensifying in Danville, as peaceful demonstrators marched on city hall. “Oh God, we have been enslaved too long ...

A confidant and lawyer for Martin Luther King, he was an unseen hand behind major civil rights events, including the 1963 ...

Bernice King's father knew, she said, that the days would come when the oppressed and marginalized would need words of reassurance to continue their struggle when he might not be around. That, she ...