Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer.. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig, author of ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the crowd during the 1963 March on Washington. He was assassinated five years later in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to lead a march in support of ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929, dedicated his life to achieving equality and justice for all Americans. He advocated the notion that a peaceful ...

People gather for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4 ...

Martin Luther King III is the oldest son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. In 1957, my father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was asked whether God approves of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is approaching quickly – Monday, Jan. 15 — and this year, the federal holiday falls on the actual birthday of the celebrated civil rights leader who was assassinated ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966. Getty Images “So King steps up to the podium at Holt Street Baptist Church on Dec. 5, 1955 and gives this incredible speech, and it's the first time that most ...

American Religious and Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968) gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd before the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March in Washington ...