Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Articles

• "I Have Seen The Promised Land"
  Jan. 1, 2006 | By Taylor Branch
  The untold story of the turbulent final days of Martin Luther King Jr.
• THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience
  Feb. 18, 1957
  (See Cover) Across the South—in Atlanta, Mobile, Birmingham, Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans—Negro leaders look toward Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, for advice and counsel on how to gain the desegregation that the U.S. Supreme Court has guaranteed them. The man whose word they seek is not a judge, or a lawyer, or a ...
• Man Of The Year: Martin Luther King Jr., Never Again Where He Was
  Jan. 3, 1964
  (See Cover) The jetliner left Atlanta and raced through the night toward Los Angeles. From his window seat, the black man gazed down at the shadowed outlines of the Appalachians, then leaned back against a white pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. ...
• Nation: The Central Points
  Mar. 19, 1965
  Civil Rights (See Cover) Despite great gains in the past decade, the American Negro is still often denied the most basic right of citizenship under constitutional government —the right to vote. Last week the Negro's struggle to achieve that right exploded into an orgy of police brutality, of clubs and whips and tear gas, of ...
• Nation: Transcendent Symbol
  Apr. 12, 1968
  For Martin Luther King Jr., death came as a tragic finale to an American drama fraught with classic hints of inevitability. Propelled to fame in the throes of the Negro's mid-century revolution, he gave it momentum and steered it toward nonviolence. Yet the movement he served with such elo quence and zeal was beginning to ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Blog Posts

• Nation
  I Have a Dream
  Jan. 25, 2008
• Nation
  Romney's Deft Touch with the Common Man
  Jan. 21, 2008
• Nation
  Ask Larry King
  May. 14, 2009
• Nation
  The Zen of Obama, Part 2
  Jan. 19, 2009
• Nation
  Romney: "Saw" is a Figure of Speech
  Dec. 20, 2007

Martin Luther King Jr. Photo Essays & Graphics

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  The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Four of the civil rights leader's closest aides recall the day of his death forty years ago
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  From Emmett Till to Barack Obama

  The civil rights movement culminates in the election of America's first black president

Martin Luther King Jr. TIME Covers

• Jan 09, 2006
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• Jan 03, 1964
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Related TIME Cover Stories

• "I Have Seen The Promised Land"
• THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience
• Man Of The Year: Martin Luther King Jr., Never Again Where He Was
• Nation: The Central Points
• Seeking Votes and Clout