The Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest asked students to consider King's challenge: “What are you doing for others?” Here ...

Q11: What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s profession before becoming a full-time civil rights leader? Answer: He was a Baptist minister in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther ... and 27% in Alabama. King first rose to prominence in the 1950s as the leader of the boycott against the segregated bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King ... to get his church in shape and perhaps move on to a bigger church or to a job as a college professor. But when the Montgomery bus ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also ...

Hundreds gathered in Tuscaloosa on Monday for Unity Day in honor of the legacy of the Rev. Martin ... to Alabama. While serving as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, King ...

Martin Luther ... “So King steps up to the podium at Holt Street Baptist Church on Dec. 5, 1955 and gives this incredible speech, and it's the first time that most people in Montgomery have ...

From being a preacher in an Atlanta Baptist church to one of the most quoted Civil Rights leaders, Martin Luther ... ran a photo of King being released from a Montgomery, Alabama, jail following ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted everyone to be equal ... The quote comes from a 1957 sermon King delivered at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, titled “Conquering ...