Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist, Baptist preacher, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was assassinated on April 4, 1968, by a gunshot wound to the right side of his jaw, neck and shoulder in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been leading a strike of …

Jan 14, 2023 · Martin Luther King's body was placed in an open bronze casket in R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home. Read on to learn more about MLK Jr.'s Casket.

Mourners loaded Dr King’s casket onto a wooden cart pulled by two mules named Belle and Ada. They carried the casket on a three and a half mile procession through the city. ... Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday in 1986. The United States observes this holiday annually on the third Monday of January. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Social Reformer. He was the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for racial equality in the United States, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In...

Mourners wating to view the open casket of Martin Luther King. Atlanta, GA, 1968. 30-24 copy

After the 1968 funeral services for Dr. King at Ebenezer Baptist Church, his casket was carried upon a farm wagon drawn by two mules to the Campus of Morehouse College for a more public funeral. Afterwards Dr. King was transported to Southview Cemetery in Atlanta for a …

Following the hour-long church service, coverage continued with scenes of the procession as thousands of mourners followed the casket through the streets of Atlanta to Morehouse College, where a...

Aug 11, 2024 · On the evening of April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike, continuing his lifelong mission to …

Apr 1, 2018 · Harry Bellafonte walks with other mourners up Courtland Street behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s casket. The intersection of Courtland and Edgewood Avenue is in the near distance, with the...

When the private service was over, King’s casket was carried through the crowd to a waiting mule-drawn wagon to be pulled through the city’s streets to Morehouse College, where a public commemoration was held. En route as many as 100,000 people joined the solemn procession.