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Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King wave to crowd in street from center window of a third-floor walk-up apartment he rented on Chicago’s West ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for ...
Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled ...
Leah Weber on Monday had a short but touching tribute to her husband, Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...
The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.
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 ...
Located on the northwest rim of the Tidal Basin, this 30-foot granite memorial pays homage to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Everything from its address at 1964 Independence Ave.