King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ...

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Thelma Mothershed-Wair, one of the Little Rock Nine, passes away Tiffany Pettus, a historian for the Arkansas Martin Luther ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billie Jean King is now the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation Thursday to recognize ...

Martin Luther King Jr. welcomed four children with wife Coretta Scott King before his death in 1968 Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National ...

As an adult, Dexter King focused on shepherding his ... on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven ...

Actors Who Have Portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with 15 of His Most Powerful Quotes Kelvin Harrison Jr. Is Playing Martin Luther King But Has Another Favorite ...

At his funeral, King's old friend Benjamin Mays delivered the eulogy: "Martin Luther King Jr. believed in a united America. He believed that the walls of separation brought on by legal and de ...