Boykins played a crucial role in the 1992 campaign for Arizona to officially recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ... to Tucson by civil rights icon Rosa Parks, whom he knew personally.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice ...

Gray represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in cases that led to landmark ... "This is a special day, not just for our bar but for the entire legal profession and our state," said ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was ... leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis ...

Cell phone location data and banking history put Prater near the facility the day before and the ... including John Lewis and Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a keynote address for the ...

Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. had ties to the center Highlander is known as a place where Civil Rights icons such as Rosa Parks and John Lewis received training. Parks ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new sculpture honoring prominent Alabama civil rights attorney Fred Gray sits outside the Alabama State Bar Association. Gray has practiced law for nearly a century ...

Ms. Parks returned to Highlander in 1957 when Dr. King gave closing remarks at a conference that marked the school’s 25th anniversary. In 1958, another prominent civil rights figure, John Lewis ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday with a new exhibition and concern among supporters about a right-wing assault on African American ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other boycott leaders strategized inside the ... was the nerve center for the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott touched off by Rosa Parks. Today, the building houses ...