Martin Luther King Junior

The Equal Justice Initiative will unveil a new statue honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Legacy Plaza on Friday, June 14. The statue will be the first full-sized sculpture of Dr. King in Montgomery.

Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement, died Friday.

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue honoring civil rights legend Rosa Parks at Legacy Plaza, across from the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery.The sculpture of Mrs. Parks is the first of three statues that will be erected in Legacy Plaza in the coming months.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. The original march in 1963 drew as many as 250,000 people and helped till the ground for passage of federal civil rights and voting rights legislation in the next few years. Alabama came next.

Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved…