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Martin Luther King III commemorated the 56th anniversary of his father’s April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum.

Historian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, spoke about the li…

An outdoor service from Memphis commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum’s plaza in front of the preserv…

On the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights leaders that included Representative John Lewis (D-GA), Marian Wright Ede…

Tavis Smiley talked about his book, Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year, in which he focuses on the final year of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. The t…

In May 2011, historian Richard Norton Smith led a 10-day bus tour from Asheville, North Carolina to Austin, Texas. The group stopped at several presidential and historic sites along the rout…

President Bush, Prime Minister Koizumi, and first lady Laura Bush visited Graceland, the home of the late entertainer Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee. They were shown being welcomed to …