Share your memories and thoughts about the legacy of Martin Luther King in this online remembrance book »1968 flashback: How the nation learned the news about the MLK assassination »Atlanta Events ...
It was a warm daily in early April in 1968, highs reaching into the 80s. Nothing unusual for Atlanta. On this day, a 1958 Chevrolet from Alcoa, Tennessee made its way the 225 miles to this Southern ...
Women hold a funeral bouquet for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at South View Cemetery in Atlanta on April 9, 1968. DECLAN HAUN / CONTRIBUTED BY CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM Women hold a funeral bouquet ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is Jan. 19, an annual celebration of the life, work, and vision of one of America’s most fervent and prominent civil rights leaders, who would have turned 97 on Jan. 15. In ...
Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. This image captured by Moneta Sleet Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Moneta Sleet Jr. Johnson Publishing Company ...