ATLANTA (AP) — As the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. approaches ... Kingian nonviolence.” King spoke fondly of Jimmy Carter, the former president who ...

Old Dominion University's 40th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Observance event will ... former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, members of Congress, international leaders, dignitaries ...

GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Before Dr. Martin Luther King ... Kennedy and Jimmy Carter all considered Mays a friend. But it’s his relationship with Dr. King many remember.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Dr. Martin Luther ... the wake of Dr. King's death in 1968, several notable figures found ways to honor him and aid in the push for MLK Day. By the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter pledged ...

That doesn’t mean those others didn’t have good intentions, but for Jimmy ... Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., praised Carter as a ...

(Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) The flag at the downtown Santa Cruz library remains at half-staff on Monday for President Jimmy Carter ... in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march sang ...

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law, designating the third Monday in January as a federal holiday in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraging Americans to ...