authored by Martin Luther King, Jr., to the National NAACP. Stride Toward Freedom was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. It is an account of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956, describing the ...

The Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association in partnership with the Luzerne County NAACP Branch 2306 recently held a program, “Martin Luther King Jr. and his presidents,” at the Luzerne ...

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 ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, ...

That Saturday, she attended a fundraiser for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP ... on mentalfloss.com as How Martin Luther King Jr. Kept Star Trek Flying ...

For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. When he was born Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name was Michael. It’s the name originally on his birth certificate. He was named ...

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 ...

Michael King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His father, Michael King Sr, and mother, Alberta King, grew up involved in the church. Alberta’s father was a minister and Michael Sr ...

Feb. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ThriftBooks Global, LLC, the world’s largest online independent used bookseller, donated a signed, first edition of the book Stride Toward Freedom, authored by Martin ...