As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al, he and Martin Luther King, Jr ... to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing the United States ...

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the ... Hezekiah Watkins was the youngest Freedom Rider during the movement. In the 1960s, Watkins, who was 13, went to the bus station in ...

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. – Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of ...

Martin Luther King was an American clergyman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the leading figures in the civil rights movement, he has had a defining influence on the recent history of ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 1964 acceptance speech “We are moving up a mighty highway toward the city of Freedom. There will be meandering points. There will be curves and ...

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. – Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of ...