Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Montgomerians marched in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. along Dexter Avenue on Monday ... Black History Month: 'A giant': Freed Alabama slave Jim Hale left a lasting mark on early ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The Selma to Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday deserve to be remembered for their importance to civil rights in the U.S.

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

Events at VMI began with the 4th Class cadets viewing the film, “Here I Am, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels.” Col.

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

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 ...

About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to the state capitol, Montgomery. It was a just cause ...

Montgomerians marched in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. along Dexter Avenue on Monday to honor the civil rights leader in a parade that was delayed nearly a month from MLK Day in January.