The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is more than just a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement; his legacy is deeply rooted in his tireless activism, his philosophical comm

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964, he flat-out called it America's most segregated city.

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature ... by referring to Martin Luther King as “the Rev. Dr. Extremist Agitator Martin Luther King, Jr.,” or by suggesting ...

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass protest movements led to women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s and the end of the Vietnam War.

His attitude later lent strength to the American civil rights movement, as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social change. King was one ...