Much of the civil rights movement is remembered through the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. There were a number of people who also made valuable contributions but aren’t known as well.

The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a civil rights giant who was Martin Luther King Jr.’s chief of staff before he became a Harlem pastor for nearly 40 years, died Tuesday. He was 88, and died at his … ...

Eighteen years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday. This year it falls on Monday, Jan. 20. To this day, it is the only federal holiday commemorating an African ...

Excerpt: How Judge Mark Walker invoked the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. ... Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Martin Luther King Jr. was not supposed to be in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Dr. King’s staffers wanted him to decline an invitation to address the city’s striking sanitation workers so he could ...

In the months leading up to his assassination 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made some of his most searing pronouncements against white supremacy, the Vietnam War, and U.S. imperialism ...

This group of advisors helped Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. They included Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, C.T. Vivian, John Lewis and others who helped him strategize ...

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Much of the civil rights movement is remembered through the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. There were a number of people who also made valuable contributions but aren’t known as well.