The events are presented by the nonprofit Friends of the Library of Collier County at the Hilton Naples.
Seventy-seven years ago this month, a 19-year-old Black student graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He was an “ordinary student,” as one friend described ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Kelly reconnects with Dr. Dorothy Jean Tillman, recipient of this year's King Center Youth ...
Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different ...
Dr. Lenore A. Martin will present “Young King,” an examination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood and how that ...
Author Patrick Parr will speak about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in a Feb. 12 campus event focused on early challenges ...
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at 39 years old, but his final book "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" and his last speeches showed his focus on globalizing the civil rights ...
The reverend and civil rights leader was a major proponent of using nonviolent protest to fight for equality.