“In 1963,” Martin Luther King Jr. once told TIME, “the civil rights issue was impressed on the nation in a way that nothing else before had been able to do.” In recognition of King’s ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for nonviolence doesn't mean he was beloved during his time. To the contrary. King was a threat to America.

Martin Luther King Jr. is widely revered as a towering figure in the history of our country and likely the best-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. Depending on your ...

The way most Americans talk about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., more than 50 years after his assassination, you might think that he gave exactly one speech — on Aug. 28, 1963, in ...