Constance Baker Motley encountered overt racism for the first time when she left her home in New Haven to attend Fisk College...
Martin Luther King spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in Connecticut...
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
Maine was at the center of one of the biggest boxing scandals of all time. In a sport known for its chaos...
In the fall of 1951, 22-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., settled into his Botolph Street apartment to begin doctoral studies at Boston...
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...