In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his nonviolent activism and ...

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated ... founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and leading the 1963 March on Washington.

A longtime civil rights leader and personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., died on Saturday.

Each of us was blessed by our close relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and our close ... Dr. King personally and to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in which we were both ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.

Each year, Americans take time to reflect and celebrate the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on the ... as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.