Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK entered the civil rights movement in 1955. A young, newly married pastor of a Montgomery, Alabama church, he was asked to lead a bus boycott aimed at ending segregation of public transport in Montgomery.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapters

On March 16, 1968 Robert Kennedy announceshe will run for president.

Nazis killed Bonhoeffer at the Flossenburg concentration camp because he would not be silent about the wrongdoings of Hitler and the Nazis.

At Flossenburg, a Nazi concentration camp, everyone knew the words a soldier spoke to a condemned prisoner: Make ready and come with us. On Su...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Story Briefs

It starts on 7 March 1965 when a civil rights procession, from Selma to Montgomery, turns violent. MLK gets involved and leads the second attempt (on ...

On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.

Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Videos

On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.

Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

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