Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

Tom, a friend of Martin Luther King, is informative and and tells interesting stories informing those of us new to the city of Atlanta’s roots in the Civil Rights Movement. Tom was a Freedom ...

MLK’s legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted “A day on” of services and parades to honor MLK including projects to ...

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been hospitalized, according to his family. The reason why Young was taken to the hospital remains unclear, but his family ...

In the 1960 presidential election, little focus was given to unrest in the South. So Atlanta activist Lonnie C. King came up with a plan, turning to his childhood friend MLK Jr. for support.

Atlanta was also a hotbed of the Ku Klux ... From Egerton, John, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), pp.

Sen. Raphael Warnock holds the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. once preached from. He told Morning Edition that "your life ...

King's innovative thinking helped pave the way for Black entrepreneurial success. By challenging what's possible, King created a new era.