the Baptist preacher and civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. That speech now stands ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. King, whose birthday is a national holiday, came dozens of times to Florida. As early as February 1958, King made a rousing speech at Bethel AME Church in Miami to ...

The world discovered that Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King helped cover the hospital bill for America’s Sweetheart herself – Julia Roberts. It sounds like something straight out ...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association Committee has been in communication with the city of Steubenville about putting up honoree signs. Following a unanimous voice vote ...

The inauguration of the 47th president of the United States coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal ... made clear that that part of his speech was not simply empty rhetoric.

There is often the risk of getting carried away by the eloquence of the Reverend (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), the African ... 1963 “I have a dream” speech, MLK declared: “I have ...

And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town ... The Rev. Dr. King, who gave the seconding speech for Maxwell, was named vice ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The Air Force will not use official resources to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, in addition to other cultural awareness holidays and months. An Air Force memo sent out Friday ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech on justice at SMU's packed McFarlin Auditorium in 1966. President Donald Trump paces the field at Daytona 500 | NASCAR on FOX Charles Barkley ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice ... on Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1965. Horrifying images of the violence were broadcast across the country ...