Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis. While visiting Memphis to support a workers' strike, King was shot and killed outside of his hotel room on ...

The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. This year's theme, "How Long, Not Long," is taken from King's famous ...

He was assassinated in 1968 while in Memphis to support the city’s sanitation workers in a strike. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed at the Lorraine motel on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, the Justice Department launched a task force to probe the FBI's harassment and ...

Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. will be released ... files on the assassinations of King, a civil rights icon who was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has filed a brief here April on behalf of the Southern ...

Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr will be released in the coming ... King was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded ...