Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

(WBRC) - Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday ... as one for the annual Divine Nine Day of Service at the West Alabama Food Bank. They were assembling cardboard boxes, sorting ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday, which means banks will be closed and government services as well, such as city offices, animal services, administrative offices of the police ...

Local leaders are preparing to host the 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Peace March ... up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, according to History.com.

King and other civil rights leaders wore plumeria lei during the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ... at Monday’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Honolulu.

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...