Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the […]
Drive Thru History: In this clip taken from our Martin Luther King Jr. special, Dave Stotts is in Atlanta, Georgia at MLK’s childhood home. We see where Dr. King grew up, where he went to school, and his first experience of racism. We’ll also go inside the church Martin Luther King pastored until his death. […]
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, playing a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, and the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of […]