Who Was Martin Luther King Jr? 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.

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader and former politician who rose to prominence as a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. The 84-year-old's family announced ...

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd looks at how the different ideas and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson impacted the direction of the Civil Rights Movement. Peniel Joseph, ...

At a time when setbacks often feel like dead ends, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. offered a simple yet enduring principle: progress is not defined by pace, but by persistence. His words ...

CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

To civil rights activist Heather Booth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination felt like a rupture. "It was like the breaking of a dream, the breaking of our hopes," Booth recalled in an interview ...

A new space at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis explores the recent past and future of the movement.

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom struggle in the 1960s. By Clay Risen Bernard Lafayette Jr., a central figure ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...