ATLANTA — Georgia was at the center of the fight for civil rights and throughout the decades, WSB has been committed to covering the movement. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott King served with civil rights groups throughout her time as a student at Antioch College and the New England Conservatory of ...

They didn't hold high public office, they didn't fight wars and they didn't possess vast wealth and riches. Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most iconic ...

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr? Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.

Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan. 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. His words and actions have left a lasting mark on ...

The Jackson Home -- relocated from Selma, Alabama, and now more than a century old -- is on display at Greenfield Village in ...

Born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated as one of the most influential Black leaders in American history. The Baptist minister, scholar, civil-rights activist ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for ...

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement March was held Monday in south Bethlehem. Just before noon, marchers braved frigid temperatures to walk from the Comfort Suites on West Third ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - More than a half-century after his death, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lives on. Across the Lehigh Valley, various organizations commemorated King on Martin Luther King Day, ...

To get the photographs, he jumped over church pews during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral, snuck into a cordoned off ...