Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement ... his defining years in pictures.

See photos below. People participate in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement March on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, as it goes from Comfort Suites to Martin Luther King Park in Bethlehem.( ...

The late civil rights movement activist was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala. A seamstress by trade, Parks got nationwide attention in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on ...