Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

Americans now honor Dr. King’s legacy and reflect on the importance of equality and nonviolent activism each year. Coretta Scott King’s activism didn’t stop with civil rights for African ...

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...

As they sat on the bed in Coretta Scott King’s dimly lit bedroom ... how to incorporate their father’s social and spiritual legacy into their own lives. “We were able to convey to the ...

King was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers upset over poor working conditions and low pay.

The annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day invites Americans to reflect on a transformative figure whose vision ...

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Every year since our opening in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum ...