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

Gray represented prominent civil rights leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis throughout the Civil Rights Movement in ...

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

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

Lacey has kept the memory of her friend Martin Luther King Jr. alive over the years. Lacey, her late husband Archie, and friends organized a candlelight ceremony on the day of King's death after ...

Theodora Lacey still displays the Christmas cards that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sent her family in ... back to when she lived in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.