But marches and protests for civil rights and sit-ins at whites-only restaurants, businesses, swimming pools and beaches increased and began receiving national attention. In the years leading to the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Greensboro Police Department is investigating after a person was shot on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive early Friday morning. At around 1:20 a.m. on Friday, officers came ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Ester, an activist who as a 20-year-old college student rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died. Ester, who died on July 9 at the age ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The 45th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will be marked on Thursday with the launch of a campaign against youth violence in his ...

ATLANTA - Atlanta police are investigating a shooting on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW that left one person shot and a child injured by debris Tuesday evening. The shooting took place around 8:30 ...

Presents the history of the civil rights movement through pictures, newspaper clippings, and text, from colonial times to 1991, framed within the life of Martin ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Ester, an activist who as a 19-year-old college student rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s side when he was shot, has died. She was 78 and died on July 9. Ester ...