Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King ... Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Dozens braved the cold in Saginaw for Martin Luther King Junior Day, marching to celebrate King’s life and what he and others accomplished for civil rights and unity.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year ... but Tennessee authorities refused to reopen the case, according to biography.com and Stanford. The Lorraine Motel is located in Memphis ...

On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered ... rights leader and his many accomplishments: “Visiting Memphis 50 years after King’s assassination” “1968 ...

Jonathan Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length ...

Community Action Partnership of Orange County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of ... an organized event to keep the story of Dr. King’s life and accomplishments alive.” This year, Community ...

MIAMI – Since 1977, long before Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a federal holiday, Miami’s historically-Black Liberty City neighborhood has played host to a parade in the civil rights leader ...

The Rev. James D. Peters Jr. marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and later ...