On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

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

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

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

(WBRC) - Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday ... as one for the annual Divine Nine Day of Service at the West Alabama Food Bank. They were assembling cardboard boxes, sorting ...

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 ...

King and other civil rights leaders wore plumeria lei during the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ... at Monday’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Honolulu.

The first time the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rocked me was when I was a 16-year-old sleeping on the top bunk of a prison cell in the Southampton Correctional Center. It was MLK Day.

Theodora Lacey still displays the Christmas cards that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... Alabama, in the 1950s. Her father was president of the board of directors of the Dexter Avenue Baptist ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...