MEDORA, ND (KXNET) — While it might be a frigid day to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., the Theodore Roosevelt National Park is offering a special perk for the holiday. If you’re looking for ...

From 2007: A Q&A with Hesburgh about Martin Luther King Jr., ... SOUTH BEND — The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh served as president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987.

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day! ... and we can shirk neither.” -- Theodore Roosevelt, March 4, 1905.

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, ... King borrowed this line from abolitionist Theodore Parker, but it became a central theme in his speeches.

Roosevelt, worried that such a ... and some of the march leaders delivered speeches at Cobo Arena.The high point was the 30-minute speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. that culminated in the ...

Two other presidents had inaugurations on Monday, January 20, but they were held before Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a holiday. Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for his third term on Monday ...

Martin Luther King Jr., for example, argued that with passage of civil rights laws, ... Douglas, raised by a struggling single mother, and appointed to his seat in 1939 by Franklin Roosevelt, ...

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.. Here’s what to know about Martin ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. Almost every American adult (95% in CBS News polling) believes he was an important figure in US history. But it wasn’t ...