Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. never got to live in the better world he helped create. His world, until the moment he died, was one ruled by hate, inequality, and oppression. The only life he knew was the one of his childhood, growing up in Atlanta. It was a ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on May 27, 1966.Michael Ochs Archives/Stringer/Getty ImagesWhen you hear the phrase civil disobedience, you may immediately think of Martin Luther King Jr. The nonviolent demonstration...
Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on May 27, 1966.Michael Ochs Archives/Stringer/Getty ImagesWhen you hear the phrase civil disobedience, you may immediately think of Martin Luther King Jr. The nonviolent demonstration...
Getty ImagesEight months before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what has since become one of the most iconic orations in American history, he gave almost the exact same speech to about 2000 people gathered at Booker T. Washington High School in Rock...
Getty ImagesEight months before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what has since become one of the most iconic orations in American history, he gave almost the exact same speech to about 2000 people gathered at Booker T. Washington High School in Rock...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the March On Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.CNP/Getty ImagesOn August 28, 1963, under a sweltering sun, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C....
AFP, Getty ImagesOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave a speech for the ages, delivering the oratorical masterpiece "I Have a Dream" to nearly 250,000 people.When he was done, King stepped...
John Goodwin/Getty ImagesJanuary 15, 2020 marks what would have been the 91st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlanta native who became one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. While it would be impossible to encompass...
Express Newspapers/Getty ImagesMartin Luther King Jr. earned a doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955. He’d previously earned a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and a Bachelor of Divinity from Crozer Theological Semin...
Getty ImagesJanuary 20, 2020 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that celebrates the life of the civil rights activist. The holiday—which was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, and has been observed annually since 198...
Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesIn 1967, as the United States was at war in Vietnam, American Civil Rights activists were fighting their own battles at home. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the war in his April 4, 1967 speech...
Martin Luther King photographed in 1964.Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress // Public Domain, Wikimedia CommonsWhile the original Star Trek (1966-1969) is remembered primarily for helping televised science fiction evolve from being slightly silly...
Rowland Scherman, Wikimedia Commons // CC0The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was recognized as a federal holiday in 1983. Today, Americans celebrate the life and legacy of the civil rights leader on the third Monday in January.This MLK Day—J...
Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles circa 1965.Martin Mills/Getty ImagesOn September 20, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. could be seen calmly sitting in the shoe section at Blumstein’s Department Store with a letter opener protruding from his chest a...
For those working behind the scenes on the King memorial, its meaning runs deep"People who knew Dr. King personally, all of them look at it [the memorial] and say, 'That's him,'" says Lisa Anders, senior project manager.(AP Photo ...
Biographer Taylor Branch makes atimely argument about civil right leader’s true legacyKing led a throng of 25,000 marchers through downtown Montgomery in 1965. (Photograph by Bob Adelman)ByRon RosenbaumSmithsonian Magazine| SubscribeJanuary 2015Firs...
Known as the Holy Week Uprisings, the collective protests resulted in 43 deaths, thousands of arrests, and millions of dollars of property damageFollowing the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968, cities across the U.S. erupted in p...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the March On Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.CNP/Getty ImagesOn August 28, 1963, under a sweltering sun, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C....
AFP, Getty ImagesOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave a speech for the ages, delivering the oratorical masterpiece "I Have a Dream" to nearly 250,000 people.When he was done, King stepped...
Getty ImagesJanuary 20, 2020 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that celebrates the life of the civil rights activist. The holiday—which was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, and has been observed annually since 198...
