Without Mahalia Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr.‘s famous “I Have a Dream” speech might never have happened. Jackson, known as the Queen of Gospel, was a musical legend who helped bring ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech next to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. The Washington Post This is an updated version of ...

Southern multi-talented actor Michael Ward starred as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “For the Love of Mahalia.” Brenda Barnes starred as Mahalia Jackson. Jackson and Dr. King met at the 1956 ...

Mahalia Jackson was seated nearby when Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the podium on Aug. 28, 1963, to address the 250,000 marchers who had come to Washington, D.C., to mark the 100th ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before some 25,000 Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers outside the Alabama state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery.

Rev. Jesse Jackson stands on the motel balcony on Feb. 14, 2018, the location where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. in 1968.

Martin Luther King, Jr., ... The dulcet voice of the gospel singer and civil-rights activist Mahalia Jackson fills the small corridor where visitors can gaze into Room 306.

On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech that inspired America -- and shamed it into honoring the principles on which it was founded.

Samuel L. Jackson was a sophomore at Morehouse College in Atlanta when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April?4, 1968, in ... and I became an usher. I remember Mahalia Jackson singing.

He was there, in Memphis, with Martin Luther King Jr,, talking up to King on the balcony when the fatal shot rang out. He was there, months later, for the Poor People’s Campaign that King had ...

Most people evoke images of Martin Luther King Jr. as the solitary hero behind the podium, but there is something he did away from the stage that was as great as his speeches but no one talks ...