Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech on justice at SMU's packed McFarlin Auditorium in 1966.

I told him, If you kill me, you’ll die too’ - INTERVIEW: The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, ...

Among the upcoming Black History Month events planned in Burlington County is the Underground Rail Museum of Burlington ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks ... including one for a portable X-ray machine, and was ...

In 2022, Martin Luther King III, the son of the legendary slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., talked to PEOPLE about what it was like spending the first 10 years of his life living ...

The birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated ... At the age of 39, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, while on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in ...

On Thursday, January 23, President Donald Trump passed an executive order suggesting releasing classified files related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has expressed their deep emotional response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to declassify federal records related to the assassinations of ...

Government files on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King ... to why Dr. King’s files were being released. The King family has long believed that the known assassin, James Earl Ray, was aided ...

Few individuals have left an indelible mark on history as Martin Luther King Jr. did. A towering figure of the American civil rights movement, King’s words were as powerful as his actions.