John Lewis: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Greatest Gift Was the ‘Belief in Society’s Ability to Change’ ...

ATLANTA — Civil Rights activist and Congressman John Lewis took to Twitter to remember his friend Martin Luther King Jr., on the day honoring the icon.

King’s daughter, Bernice King, responded to a post by Griffin that said, “We need more people ready to build bridges between ...

John Lewis, now a Georgia congressman, was the teenage son of Alabama sharecroppers when he first met Martin Luther King Jr., 60 years ago. One of the last surviving members of King’s inner ...

History Dept. How John Lewis’ Funeral Will Echo Martin Luther King Jr.’s Both at Ebenezer Baptist, both during high-stakes election years, both at a time of hot tension over civil rights. Here ...

John Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and determined civil rights activist that Martin Luther King Jr., a brilliant preacher but no organizer, ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice of the movement.

Martin Luther King Jr.Meagan Good Says She’s Coretta Scott King to Fiancé Jonathan Majors' MLK Jr.: 'I Don’t Know When I’ve Been This Happy Before' ...

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the way, President Terri Freeman of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum joined us to talk about what events they have going on this weekend.

Nearly six decades after John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.