Monday, Jan. 20 marks Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday, which just so happens to coincide with Inauguration Day this ...

From Memphis, TN, television news broadcasts and a morning newspaper -- the Commercial Appeal, James Earl Ray discovers that Martin Luther ... 7 to be a day of national mourning. King's body ...

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president. That changes ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Courtesy U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 20, but there are local events and volunteer opportunities honoring the civil rights leader ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ... Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's murder in 1969 after entering a guilty plea ...

He was a civil rights activist who fought for racial equality. Martin Luther King Day is an American holiday and people all over the country and around the world celebrate. Each year, Martin ...

This week, we commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ... King noted that this was rooted in Acts 17:26, that her uncle aspired for “the day that there ...

Summary: This assembly is especially appropriate for Martin Luther King Day (third Sunday of January to coincide with his birthday, 15/01/1929) and Black History Month. Dr King's 'I have a dream ...

Martin Luther King Jr., for example ... The swing vote on the court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, had been a skeptic of racial preferences and had authored a 1995 decision saying that ...