A Look Back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Family Photos on What Would Have Been His 96th Birthday The revered Civil Rights leader was assassinated on April 4. 1968 at just 39 years old By Stephanie ...

On April 4, 1968, King was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Here, people stand over King’s fallen body as they point in the direction that the gunshots came from.

Photos: The 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement March was held in south Bethlehem on Monday to commemorate the civil rights leader’s legacy.

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, Atlanta, Georgia, 1960.

In 1988, then Annapolis alderman Carl Snowden put together The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Maryland. Among its chief purposes, to honor those who kept King’s legacy alive with their own ...

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, according to the Stanford Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute. He was standing on a second-floor balcony outside his room at the ...