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Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part III
Part III: National Figure 1963 1964 1965 Next: New Directions for Civil Rights 1963 King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham; writes Letter…Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part IV
Part IV: New Directions for Civil Rights Mid-1960s 1966 1967 1968 Next: The Legacy Mid-1960s King's growing opposition to the Vietnam War angers President Johnson, prompts…Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part V
Part V: The Legacy 1968 1980 2006 Back to the Beginning 1968 Coretta Scott King founds the King Center in Atlanta. Top 1969 IP James Earl Ray pleads guilty to…Civil Rights at the Olympics
Black medallists raise fists for Civil Rights Movement Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos raise fists for Black Power in 1968. (Source: AP) Related Links Olympics Overview 2012…Reckoning with Slavery
Edward Ball received the National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, an exploration of the shared experience of masters and slaves in his family's plantation past. But the book is only the…A Shared History
This ceremony of supplication ends Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family, winner of the 1998 National Book Award for non-fiction. The Sierra Leoneans are representatives of Chief Alikali Modu III…Tarnished Heritage
Elias "Red Cap" Ball founded a plantation dynasty that endured for more than two centuries.As a work of genealogy, Slaves is impressive. In his research, Ball pored over more than ten…Oral Tradition
James Poyas, pictured here in a daguerrotype taken shortly before his death in 1850, was one of many Ball men to father children by slaves.The black descendants of Ball slaves interviewed for…The Rest of the Story
"We have a country with a tragic history that is as powerful as its heroic history. We have to incorporate those realities in our understanding of who we are... there's a missing part of the…Joint Reckoning
Related Links Interview: Edward Ball1998 National Book AwardsInfoplease Celebrates Black History MonthThe Emancipation ProclamationPBS Online: Africans in AmericaShould the Government…Trending
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