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The King holiday marks 58 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, underscoring the continued relevance of his ...

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Martin Luther King Jr speaks to civil rights marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. He was a believer in health ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy included connecting civil rights with economic rights. Andre M. Perry, senior fellow and ...

On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia went live and invited anyone with an internet connection to help build an encyclopedia. At the ...

Discover the depth of J. Edgar Hoover's vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr. For years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, he was subjected to a campaign of intimidation by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI ...

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Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 and became a US civil rights pioneer ...

Government offices, the stock market and many schools are closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but ...