MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray Sr. — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther ...

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final passage to legislation that will make Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery after the Civil War, an official state holiday. The Alabama ...

is being honored in bronze in downtown Montgomery. Fred Gray, 94, is the inspiration of a sculpture at the Alabama State Bar building. Gray represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in ...

Local leaders are preparing to host the 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative ... for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, according to History.com.

Students Arianna Brown and Sarah Watson went on the Alabama trip ... march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Marietta College continues to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day throughout the ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a ... the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed in August. King and other ...