“Martin Luther King, Jr. was not looking to become a leader. He was looking to get his church in shape and perhaps move on to a bigger church or to a job as a college professor. But when the ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

CHARLOTTE ( QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Monday is a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The American minister and ...

There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the other hand, it's the day the nation inaugurates its 47th president, Donald John Trump. Usually, I'm all in on the transfer-of-power thing. Not this time. On ...

MARTA has unveiled a commemorative bus honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King ... stand that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. One of the leaders to emerge from that boycott was the pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the ...

What was the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks ... of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech? The March on Washington in ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the nation.

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther ... King: A Life, spoke about the late leader, and noted that he didn’t have plans to become one when he joined the Montgomery Bus boycott ...