More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of ...

Bettmann Archive Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually ... people like Roy Wilkins at the NAACP or A. Philip Randolph, and that ...

Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out ... who seem to be his superiors in some ways, people like Roy Wilkins at the NAACP or A. Philip Randolph, and that plays out too when he becomes ...

Martin Luther King gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were delivered without a manuscript and ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King ... so church-oriented groups. King has neither the quiet brilliance nor the sharp administrative capabilities of the N.A.A.C.P.’s Roy Wilkins. He has none of the ...

The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the Martin Luther ... Urban League and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 ...

“He is always going out of his way to avoid conflict with people who are his elders, who seem to be his superiors in some ways, people like Roy ... King Jr.'s father, pastor Martin Luther ...