The quote is from a 1962 sermon titled “A Knock at Midnight” by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. King was painfully aware that racial segregation was justified in a dark place inside humans ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution ... that succeeded in dismantling bus segregation laws. King’s words were as powerful as his deeds, and his moving and eloquent ...

"Martin Luther King Jr. believed in a united America. He believed that the walls of separation brought on by legal and de facto segregation, and discrimination based on race and colour, could be ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister, civil-rights activist, and an advocate for race relations in the United States. Through King's activism and inspirational speeches, he played an ...

MEMPHIS, April 4, 1968 (UPI) - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot outside a Memphis ... Luther King won his first big battle in the war on segregation in Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

The best-laid plans are often better off ignored—at least that was the case with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have ...

This stellar biography from political scientist Theoharis (Julian Bond’s Time to Teach) makes a persuasive case that Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign ... the “de facto segregation of ...

Martin Luther King Jr, was born on 15 January 1929 ... In the 1950s African-American communities were becoming increasingly vocal against racial segregation and persecution, drawing on what was ...