Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of his contemporaries refused to see this. While many Northern politicians and ...

“Martin Luther King, Jr. was not looking ... in shape and perhaps move on to a bigger church or to a job as a college professor. But when the Montgomery bus boycott began, they were looking ...

As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama ... The legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Day was ...

April 4th is the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King ... in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s. Her father was president of the board of directors of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where ...

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther ... on his dissertation, King became pastor of the ...

The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr ... collective ...