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

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal ...

The MIA was led by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. They decided they wanted ... A burning bus that had been carrying Freedom Riders before it was attacked at Anniston, Alabama, in the summer of 1961 ...

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National ...

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 ...

WATERLOO — The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Bus Tour will take its sixth journey to famous civil rights sites in the south. The week-long tour explores iconic human and civil right spaces in ...

Martin Luther King Jr, was born on 15 January 1929 ... King’s prophetic vision combined an explicitly Christian language of freedom and justice with an appeal to American democracy. Peaceful protests ...