Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day ... the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting ...

Katie Hall passed Congress and was signed into law by former Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday. Bernice King interned in Hall's office ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's ... in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. He died 25 hours later.

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final passage to legislation that will make Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Students Arianna Brown and Sarah Watson went on the Alabama trip ... The theme of Marietta College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration this year is “Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ... Alabama State Bar Association on Thursday. “Growing up in Montgomery ...

BOSTON — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak ... and windy day, conditions similar ...

"The sculpture will serve as a reminder to every lawyer who walks through this courtyard that service, courage and character ...