President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

In the midst of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, as it was being filibustered on the Senate floor, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X crossed paths on Capitol Hill.

Each year, the National Civil Rights Museum honors Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, the day he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, which is now the site of the museum. The evening event was ...

This fall, a digital archive will open access to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most overlooked leaders: Bayard Rustin.

The longtime civil rights leader and senior pastor of First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix was honored June 29 as he ...

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X pictured during their first and only meeting, ... Rising to prominence at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, ...