Aiken’s annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featured Christale Spain, a USCA alumna and the first black woman to ...

At the State House, crowds gathered for the NAACP's annual King Day at the Dome, a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers an address at the Tomlinson High School athletic field in Kingstree, South Carolina, to encourage voter participation in upcoming elections in this 1966 file photo.

Christale Spain, the first African American woman to chair the South Carolina Democratic Party, and an alumnus at USC Aiken ...

It’s easy to oversimplify the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to ... in public and in private, here in South Carolina on 10 occasions. The Palmetto State was not King’s front line in his ...

Members of both University of South Carolina Aiken and Aiken Technical college offered a helping hand at several community organizations in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers an address at the Tomlinson High School athletic field in Kingstree, South Carolina, to encourage voter participation in upcoming elections in this 1966 file photo.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of service and commitment to racial equality and civil rights for all will be in the hearts and on the minds of many during the federal holiday held each year in ...

South Carolina was the final holdout until 2000. But, it was without the backing of the civil rights groups because it also allowed for a Confederate Memorial Day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set ... the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. South Carolina marks Confederate Memorial Day in May.