Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters, police dogs and fire hoses, courageous struggle and long overdue federal action with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

April 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In what became the first major Civil Rights march in the Northeast, more than 20,000 gather ...

In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...

April 4 marks the anniversary of the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... that withstood and ...

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure of the civil ... young Martin was introduced early to the realities of segregation and racial prejudice. His father, a passionate preacher and ...

In treating Northern so-called “de facto” segregation as distinct from ... even when it was called out in the eloquent tones of Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After the successes of the ...