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 the most influential and recognizable figures in American history. His rise ...

Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig, author of the ...

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 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were improvised, delivered without a manuscript and with maybe just a few notes. Dr. King’s most ...

DECATUR — The Martin Luther King Jr. March will kick off at noon ... through different schools in the district,” said Melverta Wilkins, one of the organizers of the event.

For McKenya Dilworth-Smith, Martin ... Luther King, Jr. Day service event. McKenya Dilworth-Smith, the organization’s executive director, said she wanted to pack 1,000 bags. (Maya Wilkins ...

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.

Born in Crescent City on April 15, 1889, then raised and educated in Jacksonville, Florida Mr. Asa Philip Randolph was the son of an AME Minister and tailor father, and seamstress mother.

it served as a gathering place for meetings and rallies led by prominent civil rights warriors such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Thurgood Marshall. It was named to the ...

Hedgeman urged the male members of the march's planning committee to have a woman speaker, but they initially refused.