Martin Luther King Jr. carried ... slain civil rights leader. King’s Bible will be stacked with the burgundy velvet and gilded Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't own the white Lincoln Continental in question. The car belonged to Cornelia Crenshaw, a local civil rights activist in Memphis. Crenshaw was a Memphis Housing ...

President Obama will take the oath of office with two Bibles that once belonged to a pair of civil rights icons: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. King's "traveling Bible" was provided by ...

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin ...

Do you agree with the author’s assessment that Dr. King Jr. was the Great Emancipator? What exactly were the goals of black emancipation? Lincoln opposed the Fremont emancipation order issued in ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King ... century ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., where he gave his "I Have A Dream" speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is seen marching hand in hand with ... than the renowned Jewish philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in Warsaw ...

The only other North Americans to have their birthday celebrated as a national holiday are former presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King Jr Day was first celebrated ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

Do you agree with the author’s assessment that Dr. King Jr. was the Great Emancipator ... those who served our cause as soldiers”. Abraham Lincoln’s racial attitudes mirrored his fellow ...