John Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and determined civil rights activist that Martin Luther King Jr., a brilliant preacher but no organizer, ...

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” is a 67-year-old colorful comic book still making an impact across the globe ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther ... just age 35, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Another Georgian who was key in the movement was John Lewis.

as Well' John Lewis Wrote Tributes to His Wife and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Posthumous Book: 'I Miss Her' Ga. High School Apologizes for Racist Yearbook Page Featuring MLK Jr: 'It Hurts Me to ...

When Americans celebrated the inaugural Martin Luther ... quote King. The commercialization and standardization of King’s legacy did not go uncontested. In January 1995, Rep. John Lewis (D ...

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law Congressman John Lewis and Sen. Harris Wofford’s legislation making ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice ... The late congressman and activist Rep. John Lewis called it “good trouble”—the kind necessary to create real change. And King knew it well.

It has been edited for length and content. Civil rights leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis and labor luminaries Walter Reuther and James Hoffa paused Tuesday to bury ...

Nearly six decades after John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...

And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. – Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of Evil upon the Seashore," sermon given at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, May ...