Martin Luther King Jr. had a suite on the ground floor and is said to have delivered the first version of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at an event at the historic Hampton House.

Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., speaks before the start of a Peace Walk in Washington, January 17, 2022.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. His words and actions have left a lasting ...

Arndrea Waters King, Martin Luther King III, Russ Wigginton, president of the National Civil Rights Museum, and Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells place a new wreath in front of Room 306 where Martin ...

Original caption: Civil Rights activist Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta, daughter Yolanda, 5, & Martin Luther III, 3, sitting together as they play piano in their livingroom ...

He was even ordained to the ministry by his own father at the age of 19. Dr. King opposed racism, but that was only part of his platform. He studied the three evils - poverty, racism, and militarism.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead at 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Ohio Northern University in 1968. One woman remembers the impact the prominent Civil Rights leader's words had at the rural northwest Ohio school.

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacyPresident Trump is fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail, with new tariffs set to be imposed on some of the U.S.’s biggest trade partners ...

Martin Luther King, right, and the late Rev. Ralph Abernathy are taken by a police officer after they led a line of demonstrators into the business section of Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1963.

Here is a list of events to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 77th birthday: Today Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, which sparked rioting in Washington and in more than 100 other cities. This month, a series of events will recall ...