But perhaps the most pivotal event of 1968 happened on Thursday, April 4, when civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. — the face of the nonviolent movement for racial justice — was gunned ...

The civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel. King, who was 39 years old, was rushed to a hospital, where he died of a ...

King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray on the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Friends and family of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader at the forefront of the American civil rights movement, was assassinated at 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968. King had been preparing to leave for dinner with ...

He was married to Coretta Scott King and had four children. When was Martin Luther King Jr. killed? King was assassinated in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a trailblazing civil rights activist with a soaring vision for a just America. As a Baptist ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a prominent American Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his ...

On his last night alive, King stepped up into a pulpit to challenge the congregants to be the best version of themselves.

(Original Caption) 4/3/1968-Memphis, TN: One of the last pictures to be taken of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- speaking to a mass rally April 3 in Memphis -- when he said he would not halt his ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was staying on April 4, 1968, when an assassin's bullet took his life as King stood on the balcony outside the door. (Greg Campbell/AP) “When I took the tray in ...

(Click here to continue reading) On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was in Indianapolis, campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president when he was told of the assassination of King.

He arrived at the University of Colorado Law School at 11:30AM and was accepted at 3:00PM.59 He earned his law degree a year later in 1968. 60 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 ...