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 Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from ...

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.

Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the ...

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 ...