Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed almost 60 years ago Friday. Here is a quick look into his life and remarkable legacy.

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Civic education is not just important — it is essential. Too many of our young people do not know who represents them.

She was a leading march organizer, working directly with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern ... his Democrat colleagues introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...