Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

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

Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights. While there, he was the subject of criticism by eight white clergymen ...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building on March 25, 1965 in Montgomery ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written 61 years ago this month, will be read aloud this week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

AP Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, goes to jail in Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 1963, after being convicted of parading without a permit.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social ...

Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968, centre) visits Birmingham, Alabama, during the Birmingham campaign, October 22, 1963. (Michael Ochs via Archives/Getty Images) ...

King was taken to Birmingham jail and separated from his supporters. He refused to post bail, instead drawing the media’s attention on the injustices of segregation.