Born less than five years apart in Georgia, the late President Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. both came up during the civil rights movement, rising to the top of American politics to be ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

On April 4, it will have been 50 years since Baptist minister, civil rights leader and Southern Christian Leadership Conference President the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, ...

America met Bernice King on April 9, 1968. The youngest of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr.’s four children, Bernice had just turned five-years-old two weeks earlier. But there she was, in a packed ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This gelatin silver print depicts a ...

Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Baptist Church on March 16 for Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist and sister-in-law of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She died in Atlanta on ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year in orde… In May 2011, historian Richard Norton ...

Preparing to eulogize the father, skateboarder and photographer who tattooed his mother's name on his arm, the Rev. Al Sharpton invoked Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered his last and famed ...