King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest inhumane treatment.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

(AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign ... a.m. through a commercial alarm service. Local fire and police ...

(AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign ... through a commercial alarm service. Local fire and police ...