Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil ...

CHICAGO — Chicago civil rights leaders ... days in the American calendar. And that is the day that we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...