Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. King ... But it went deeper than that. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference started backing local activists in their protests. King arrived in May 1964 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't born in Alabama ... the Montgomery Bus Boycott and he co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Bayard ...

The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Ninety years to the day the Dorchester Academy’s boys dormitory was dedicated to the school’s first female principal, it now ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

On March 7, 1965 protestors for African American voting rights were attacked by law enforcement officers in Selma, Alabama.

Early in the year, the significant legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King resonates strongly. The third Monday in January is Martin ...

SELMA, AL – Sixty years have passed since a group of peaceful protesters were severely beaten after crossing the Edmund ...