As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still ...

Photographer Richard Copley recalls covering the sanitation workers' strike. Photographer Richard Copley recalls covering Martin Luther King, Jr. and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, ...

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 suffered ...

April 28 (Reuters) - A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King's last civil rights campaign caught fire early on Monday morning and was badly ...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday. The keynote speaker for the event was actress and producer Vivica A.

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 suffered ...

FILE - People hold signs resembling the signs carried by striking sanitation workers in 1968 as they join in events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther ...