Nelson Mandela was a prominent civil rights leader who fought segregation and racial apartheid systems in South Africa. Similar to many famous world leaders, his views were not popular with the ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 20, representing a time to remember the legacy of America’s famous Civil Rights leader and ...

A look at a few Wilmington civil rights pioneers from the 20th century whose contributions might be lesser-known but still ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and political philosopher who became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil ...

So respected was this great American that MLK Jr. delivered the invocation at his funeral, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood ...

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Martin Luther King was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement that started in America in the year 1955, this ...