6 days ago · The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or …

Nov 9, 2009 · Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. …

Feb 7, 2024 · Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil …

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black Power became the rallying call of black nationalists and revolutionary armed movements like the Black Panther Party, and King’s interpretation of the …

Achieving major national influence through the Nation of Islam (NOI) and the Black Power movement of the 1960s, proponents of black nationalism advocated economic self-sufficiency, …

Jan 19, 2025 · Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did …

During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved …

Jan 25, 2025 · Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, Nonviolence, Equality: In the years after his death, King remained the most widely known African American leader of his era.

Jan 10, 2024 · Contemporary Black leaders and figures, such as Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, founders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, political activist, Stacey …

6 days ago · Defense Agency Pauses Celebrations of Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Women’s History Month and Others The Pentagon joined the scramble by federal agencies trying to …