Fifty-seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis. While visiting Memphis to support a workers' strike, King was shot and killed outside ...

OPINION: Alberta King, the mother of the civil rights leader, was killed by a Black man who was inspired by harmful religious rhetoric. The world stopped when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was ...

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In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King ... Martin Jr. had an older sister, Willie, and a younger brother, Alfred. The King children grew up in a secure ...

Martin Luther King Jr. recalled the Funtown incident in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail." Sadly, Yolanda was just 12 years old when her father was assassinated. She later became an advocate for ...

The King Center will host a wreath-laying ceremony Friday afternoon to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 57 years after he was assassinated in Memphis. The event will take ...

On April 4, the National Civil Rights Museum honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 57 years after his death in 1968. Each year, the National Civil Rights Museum honors Martin Luther King Jr. on April ...

READ MORE: Dexter Scott King, younger son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies ... Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s reach has only grown in its 42 years. It’s the only federal holiday where you take ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – It was 60 years ago today that the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. That’s what led the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission to hold several events to celebrate.

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