King, who was 39 years old, was rushed to a hospital, where he died of a bullet wound to the neck. In a court filing submitted last week by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil ...

Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released — ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed almost 60 years ago Friday. Here is a quick look into his life and remarkable legacy.

In 1957, King established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with fellow activists C.K. Steele, Fred Shuttleworth and T.J. Jemison. As SCLC president, King was tasked with the ...

The planned release, however, is facing strong opposition from King’s family and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)—the civil rights organization King co-founded. The SCLC ...

After Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968, Abernathy took up the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Poor People's Campaign and led the 1968 March on Washington.

At the invitation of the Improvement Association, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chose Selma as a locus for civil rights demonstrations in 1964. The mayor of Selma ...

The Penn Center is a remote site where King and his colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) held several gatherings in the mid-1960s. It had a rich history in the Black ...

City leaders and the national press were outraged. The landlord took King and the SCLC to court. The judge ordered the trusteeship ended but didn’t find King guilty of a criminal charge ...