For a limited time, visitors can step inside the building on Auburn Avenue that played a key role in how the civil rights ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women's roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book Trailblazers and Torchbearers dives into the stories of female leaders ...

In the fight for racial equality, many people in Georgia stepped forward. Leaders like John Lewis, Hosea Williams, Ralph ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan. 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. His words and actions have left a lasting mark on ...

Explore the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the March on Washington and Selma to Montgomery marches. Learn how Dr. King used ...

Communities across the country will soon honor the life and legacy of an American civil rights icon. Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed on Monday. Like the civil rights movement itself, the ...

Born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated as one of the most influential Black leaders in American history. The Baptist minister, scholar, civil-rights activist ...

CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population" ...

In March of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to lead a group of striking sanitation workers in peaceful protest amid threats against his life. The threats were real. Martin ...