Why is it important to learn from the past? Why and how do people struggle for social justice? What rights and responsibilities do we have in our world today? These questions guided St. Paul's Episcopal School students as they investigated the modern African American freedom struggle. Andrea McEvoy Spero, King Institute Education Director, provided primary sources and Don Jelinek, a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi from 1965-1968, shared personal experiences. Based upon their research, these young historians created beautifully illustrated children's books to share with their peers. Click here to see more about Ms. Nicole Mills and Mr. Ryan Faulkner's civil rights unit and the students' projects.

In honor of the upcoming King Holiday, join us for an Open House Friday, January 18, 2013, from 4 - 6 pm. All are welcome.

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, Deputy Attorney General under Robert Kennedy and Attorney General for President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died Tuesday, 8 May. He was 90.

A "living monument" to her family, "that Stephen's girl" to her critics as a young woman, and prominent fixture in the civil rights movement in Florida, Patricia Stephans Due passed away on February 7, in Smyrna, Georgia. She was 72.

Reacting to southern racial violence, Dr. King, C. K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth issued an “urgent plea” for a two day conference of southern black leaders to be held at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King’s father was pastor.
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Montgomery Improvement Association Press Release
Southern Christian Leadership Conference "Statement to the South and the Nation"

Find out about 2012 King Holiday events occurring on campus and in the local area!

The King Holiday Celebration will take place 3 pm - 5 pm at Tresidder Memorial Union, 459 Lagunita Drive, on the Stanford campus.
The event is free and open to the public.

Judge Carter spent years doing research in law and history to construct the legal theory that was used to challenge the Supreme Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson during the infamous 1954, Brown v. Board of Education case.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute invites you to our 2012 King Holiday Celebration! A schedule of King Holiday events occurring on campus and in the local area can be viewed here.

Robert Mants, who helped lead the first march from Selma to Montgomery to press for equal voting rights in 1965, died 7 December 2011 while visiting relatives in Atlanta.

Human and civil rights activist, Eddie Brown, Jr. died at his home on Wednesday 23 November at the age of 70, from complications from cancer. He leaves behind a legacy of human and civil rights advocacy.

Once refered to by Dr. King as "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South," Fred Lee Shuttlesworth put his life on the line time and time again as he fought against Jim Crow. He died this morning at 89.

Clayborne Carson, editor of the King's Papers and director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, tells USA Today that King "symbolizes a movement that changed America. Whatever people might say about whether the movement would have happened without him, it's clear that he was a central part of the movement." To read more about the King memorial and its relevancy to our national history, click on the title.

In a featured radio interview on CNN, Clay Carson and Bob Fitch reflect upon the relevancy and meaning of the stone monument soon to be dedicated on the Washington Mall. Click on the title to listen.

The Reverend Kelvin Croom discusses why he forgives former segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace.

In 1961 John Lewis volunteered for the first Freedom Rides coordinated by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and CORE. Lewis suffered a severe beating by a group of whites during the rides. In February 2009 former Klansman Elwin Wilson appologizes to Lewis for the beating that occured nearly fifty years ago.

On the final Sunday before Election Day, black Bay Area voters reflected on their feelings as the nation sits on the precipice of history.

Austin Peay State University will host a portion of the 62nd Annual NAACP State Convention and Civil Rights Conference on September 27 at the APSU Morgan University Center.

Members of the federal arts commission expressed satisfaction with changes to the King memorial statue which smoothed away wrinkles in King's brow and added a slight smile.

The Indian Worker's Congress reached Day 21 of their hunger strike, the longest Mahatma Gandhi ever fasted. The workers are protesting their treatment at the hands of Signal International.

A doctor in Howard's Class of '68 has followed MLK's lessons

Viewing original papers written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in King's home city of Atlanta, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the renowned leader, saying that the values he lived and died for are shared by the United Nations.

Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of an acclaimed trilogy on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

In an opinion article written for The Wall Street Journal, Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former legal advisor, says that King would have been disheartened by the anti-Semitism espoused by many of today's most prominent Black leaders.

The sociologist Jonathan Rieder examines Martin Luther King’s oratorical gift.

Obama gives a powerful, landmark speech on race.

This play about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision to oppose the war in Vietnam resonates with Obama's stand against the unpopular war on Iraq.

“The Man in Room 306” challenges the audience to confront viscerally one of the most tragic moments in our country’s history: the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Taylor Branch, a prominent King biographer, discusses the assassination of King 40 years later.