The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting ...

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

Martin Luther King ... up for our Newsletters King became a prominent leader during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and he co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Ralph Abernathy ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Early in the year, the significant legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King resonates strongly ... civil rights efforts fractured. King preached unity, but confronted disintegration. His Southern Christian ...

a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died." Related: Civil rights leader, former central ...