Martin Luther King Jr. Edited and introduced by Cornel West. Beacon, $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1282-6 This selection of King’s writings and speeches ably introduces historical neophytes to ...

Martin Luther King was an American clergyman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the leading figures in the civil rights movement, he has had a defining influence on the recent history of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. spent his years as an activist and ... He was known for his speeches, sermons and inspirational ...

Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 85 last week ... or who are scrutinizing his speeches and writings all these decades later. With that said, let's take a brief tour through a sampling ...

Martin Luther King Jr. said "Our lives begin to end the ... While the exact quote is nowhere to be found in King's speeches or writings, it does seem to be a paraphrase of a more complex thought ...

His name was Dr. Martin Luther King. And the words he said that day are some of the most famous in history. He said he had a dream that life for his children could be different from how it had ...

Dr King was assassinated three weeks after the dossier was written A secret FBI dossier on civil rights leader Martin Luther King alleges that he had a string of affairs and other "sexual ...

Martin Luther King's creed of non-violence surprised many ... sources of his developing philosophy were the Bible and the writings of Mahatma Gandhi. "Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ...