"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On the morning of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. readied to head to Memphis, Tennessee, for the ...
Decades after the 1968 assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the U.S. federal government has released over 230,000 pages of previously undisclosed documents related to the ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A civil rights activist, Clara Jean Ester, who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., died ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Tennessee. On April ...
A Black letter carrier, Cecil Cooper, walked into the office of the Syracuse Herald-Journal on the morning of April 5, 1968. He did not have any mail to deliver that day, just a message. An appeal he ...
The late Steve Schapiro tells the stories behind many of his iconic photographs in the new documentary 'Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere' Steve Schapiro The new documentary Steve Schapiro: Being ...
King’s father changed both of their names from Michael to Martin Luther in honor of the protestant reformer. Youngest person, at the time, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Author of five books, published ...