The legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis will live on across America Thursday, with more than 1,600 events scheduled on the ...

Civil rights leader from Denver Rev. Dr. James D. Peters has died 00:23. A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a ...

Lewis' legacy as a civil rights activist and lawmaker spans decades and numerous administrations. What to know as planned protests invoke his legacy.

Three civil rights activists from Selma, ... other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, ... march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, ...

A black-and-white digital image of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, John Lewis, Reverend James Orange and additional Civil Rights activists leading the march. Andrew Young ...

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

U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1964. (Photo courtesy of Britannica Encyclopedia / Cecil ...

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 ...

A march was held Friday on Chicago's West Side to mark 57 years since the assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement passed away this week ...