To truly honor Martin Luther King, you have to love the people who hate you Martin Luther King sought to 'win (the) friendship and understanding' of his enemies, not viewing them as true enemies ...

Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.

The legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis will live on across America Thursday, with more than 1,600 events scheduled on the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a rising civil rights figure when he came to Albany, Georgia, in December 1961, keen to provide a shot in the arm to a desegregation movement that was gathering new steam.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name first appeared in the Chicago Tribune in early 1956, for his leadership of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. “We must use the weapon of love. … ...

Larry Mantle talks with author Stewart Burns about his new history of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, To The Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission ...

Participants march and sing as they make their way along Broadway to Martin Luther King Park on Carlton Ave. on Bethlehem’s South Side during the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement ...

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X pictured during their first and only meeting, outside the US Capitol on 26 March 1964 (Image credit: Trikosko / Library of Congress / Interim Archives / Getty ...

As the nation reflects on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. it’s important to look at the Civil Rights Movement of the '50s and '60s and how it shapes the Black Lives Matter movement now.

The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for ... — Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of his childhood home in this image from The Call’s photography archive. The Kansas ...

SELMA — Those of us who covered the civil rights era always looked forward to interviewing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ... much in his 39 years and became a symbol of a historic movement.