When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

The National Civil Rights Museum is closely monitoring efforts to declassify national intelligence files related to the ...

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. That wait ...

President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of ...

Thousands of people braved the cold to learn about King and the Civil Rights movement during a free admission day at the Durham Museum in downtown Omaha.

From #kunhardtfilmfoundation Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was ...

This is not about Dr. King. It’s about us as a community,” said Janice Leavell, the chair for the King Holiday Committee in ...

Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights ...

Joe Calhoun lived in a church attic, listening as Rev. King and other civil rights leaders planned the Memphis sanitation ...

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 sanitation workers strike, listening to Martin Luther King Jr. and other ...