The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association ...

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

Places like the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama − and people like those ... the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years ... the popular name for the speech King delivered on the steps of the Alabama state capital during a 1965 voting rights rally that followed ...

Gray has practiced law for nearly a century, winning landmark cases during the Civil Rights Movement under the representation of Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the late ...

Not Long," is taken from King's famous speech in Alabama. The ceremony will feature performances, a keynote speaker, and a wreath-laying at the Lorraine Motel balcony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Later, they would form the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Committee to celebrate ... about Lacey and her husband leaving their native Alabama and the civil rights work they were doing there ...

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... She had grown up in a proud farming family in Alabama who owned their own land. The family was harassed and threatened repeatedly.