Read full article: On MLK Day, King III implores Senate to act on voting rights Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights. MLK III ...

Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer ...

The guest opinion column author Russ Wigginton is president of the National Civil Rights Museum. He shares ideas for making ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading ... legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Martin Luther ... King reflected on his father's legacy and what today's protesters can do to bring about the kind of sweeping policy changes enacted after the marches of the civil-rights movement ...

See Martin Luther King Jr.’s life depicted onscreen ... Continuing to focus on voting rights, King, the SCLC, SNCC, and local organizers planned to march peacefully from Selma, Alabama, to ...

and now we are calling on them to do the same to restore the very voting rights protections my father and countless other civil rights leaders bled to secure," Martin Luther King III, son of the ...

Martin Luther King was an American clergyman and winner ... was made with the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act followed in 1965, removing many of the barriers which had ...

Read full article: On MLK Day, King III implores Senate to act on voting rights Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights. Read full ...

In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2015, Bates examined the great civil ... Frost’s paintings illustrate key episodes from the movement, including a voting rights march by black teachers and, ...

WATCH: Family of Martin Luther King Jr. hold news briefing after march for voting rights The family of Martin Luther King Jr. led a "Peace March" Monday morning across Washington, D.C.'s new ...