Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed almost 60 years ago Friday. Here is a quick look into his life and remarkable legacy.

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Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther ... King was shot and killed outside of his hotel room on Thursday, April 4, 1968. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 15, 1929. He was the eldest son ...

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King ... to honoring Dr. King’s legacy, and that requires that we remind the world on April 4, and every other day, that he died seeking economic justice ...

Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...

Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

Martin Marty (Ph.D. ’56), the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, passed away on February 25. He was 97 years old. Marty taught in the ...

It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...