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Rare Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. signatures found in Alabama jail logbook
Rare documents with 12 signatures of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sold on Wednesday for more than $130,000. They were penned in an Alabama jail logbook after King was arrested in April 1963 for leading a march against racial segregation.
WATCH: C.T. Vivian, civil rights pioneer, laid to rest in Atlanta
The nation paid its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who helped end segregation across the South and left an enduring imprint on U.S. history.
How students experience and cope with racist stereotypes
In interviews with their peers, student journalists found teenagers grappling with a variety of racial misconceptions, ranging from annoying attitudes to deeply hurtful views.
How black Americans’ lives have–and haven’t–changed since Dr. King’s death
Today we are still fighting many of the same battles as Dr. Martin Luther King did in his day.
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days, he traveled to Memphis to lend his voice to the city's black sanitation workers, who were protesting poor working conditions. Fred Davis, who helped negotiate an end to the strike, marched with King…
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