Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech in Montgomery, Alabama known as Our God is Marching on.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY: 5 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS HERO "There was a synergy going on in that house during those critical times," Jawana Jackson said.

Professor Warren Goldstein showed slides as he lectured to a class at the University of Hartford about the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s time in Birmingham, Alabama, and the civil rights ...

Alabama and Mississippi recognize both King and Lee on the ... President Ronald Reagan in 1983 signed legislation naming the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter helped unveil a historical marker on Tuesday in the Alabama city where he penned his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be in observance on Monday, Jan. 16. There will be many events in Mobile and Baldwin Counties for those who want to honor the minister and ...

That same Mustang would soon carry Ray to Selma where he expected Martin Luther King Jr. to speak. Charles Kelly (King is shown in an April 3, 1968 file photo at the Mason Temple in Memphis as he ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. ... Alabama. He completed his ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech in Montgomery, Alabama known as Our God is Marching on.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ... Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a January state holiday for Lee. Mississippi did the same in 1910.

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...