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

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

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has received a $30,000 grant that will support an annual gathering celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; two annual Black History Celebrations; the branch's Unsung Heroes Project; and ...

Katie Hall passed Congress and was signed into law by former Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday. Bernice King interned in Hall's office ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign ... a similar Memphis fire at First United Methodist Church in 2006.

(AP Photo/File) FILE - A bronze and steel sculpture honoring a sanitation workers strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in 1968 was dedicated on April 5, 2018, in Memphis ...

The Memphis Church Pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Days Suffers a Devastating ... who helped after a similar Memphis fire at First United Methodist Church in 2006. He said that project ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and ...