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The FBI gets a photo of Eric Galt from the International ... James Earl Ray pleads guilty to killing Martin Luther King, Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ...
Rosa Parks’ mugshot is one of the most famous images of the civil ... and asked a young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. to help lead them. And on the day that Rosa Parks was arraigned, Dec. 5, ...
As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...
On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...
April 4th is the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. North Jersey residents recalled their personal encounters with the legendary civil rights leader Theodora Lacey still displays ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a ...
Theodora Lacey still displays the Christmas cards that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sent her family in her Teaneck home. "I keep them on my bookshelf to look at them often," Lacey said.
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, in which ...
FAYETTEVILLE — A new traffic flow is set to begin next week on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at Interstate 49 in Fayetteville. Weather permitting, a permanent change in traffic flow is ...
The arrest is tied to the April 3 shooting in the 800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Officers responded to the scene around 11:30 p.m. and found Joseph Bargeman Jr., 24, dead from apparent ...