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

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to try to break through discrimination in ...

Johnson. Part of President Johnson’s “Great Society” program, the act provided federal protection that allowed millions of blacks to register and vote. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of ... legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, as the sun set over Memphis, Tennessee, a single gunshot echoed, forever altering the course of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure ...

(a reference to the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Congress) to its design ... makes it convenient to reach. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours ...

In 2015 he addressed a joint session of Congress. In that speech, he evoked Abraham Lincoln and praised Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of “liberty in plurality and non-exclusion.” ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

On Monday, January 20, the Memphis Grizzlies will host the 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Game ... celebrate, and act on Dr. King’s legacy. For more information on those events ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...