But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an ...

In April 1963, under police detention in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King read an open letter, published in a local newspaper, from a number of southern white clergymen calling for an end to ...

The prison bench where Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of his best-known letters will be displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution later this year. The metal seat from which the civil ...

April 16 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1862, the U.S. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia. In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is widely regarded as one of the most important texts of the Civil Rights Movement. Ahead of the MLK holiday on Monday, HarperCollins has ...

Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution traces the complex legacy, at home and abroad, of the Declaration of ...