Afterward, he urged his brother to embrace civil rights as a moral issue. Though the bulk of President Kennedy's advisors counseled him against making his speech on June 11, claiming it was too ...

Kennedy Jr. (JFK) and former Attorney General Robert F ... and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the broader American Civil Rights Movement.” “These actions were not only invasions of privacy, but ...

The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of records in accordance with an executive order from January.

Photographer Steve Schapiro captured the moment in an image of King linking arms with fellow civil rights activists John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...