The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made history as a defining leader of the Civil Rights movement who preached a message of nonviolent resistance. His hand in organizing a number of significant protests ...

Photographer Richard Copley recalls covering Martin Luther King Jr. and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis 50 years ago, when he was a college student.

ATLANTA – Almost 41 years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, newly published photographs of the aftermath of his shooting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn ...

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. In 1955 King received his Ph.D from ...

Monday honors the birthday of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year the holiday falls on Monday, Jan. 15, which is King's actual birthday.

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.