The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length as King’s life. At the time of the first celebration in 1986, M. Carl Holman, president of the ...

After his death, she would advance her husband’s legacy by founding the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Activists organize a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery ...

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood like? Discover how his early life and education shaped the Civil Rights leader we ...

Birmingham was its main battleground, and Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Negroes in Birmingham, became to millions, black and white, in South and North, the symbol of that revolution ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. listens to staff members of the Southern ... In the words of King in Freedomways magazine in 1968, “The supreme task [of a leader] is to organize and unite people so ...

Martin Luther King Jr, was born on 15 January 1929 ... Here he met students from all backgrounds, and matured in the company of his peers, cultivating his gifts for intellectual life and finding a new ...

Monday commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the holiday coincides with Trump’s ...

FILE - Passengers depart the Caltrain Norcal MLK Celebration Train in San Francisco on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday ... holiday but the holiday is a symbol of liberty and justice for ...