The King Center honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 57 years after his assassination with a wreath-laying ceremony in Atlanta.

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. on April 4, 1968.

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... He was the eldest son and the second of four children in his family. In 1944, he attended Morehouse College and ...

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther ... Kennedy Jr, who was a teenager when his father was killed, ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, in which Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his ...

The first time the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rocked me was when I was a 16 ... And though they never told me how much, my family also let me know he spent some time in prison.

The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

as My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. notes. She spoke out against U.S. involvement in Vietnam and became “the family spokesperson on the peace issues,” though the book gives this part of her life ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his final speech, telling a rally ...