King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. Assassinated by James Earl Ray, King died on April 4, 1968, at age 39. He continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational Black leaders in history. Quick Facts FULL NAME: Martin Luther King ...
At the time of his death, MLK was considered to be the leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest speakers for what it means to be human. So why would the government want him dead? The King family’s...
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“It’s really sad in a celebration of someone who represented peace and equality that a disagreement results in a use of guns and violence to solve that disagreement, and that’s what’s really sad to me about what happened here," Hester said. "And then so many innocen...
The Temple’s Rabbi Jacob Rothschild and King became very close friends during the 50s and 60s. In 1965, Rothschild organized a banquet for King in honor of his Nobel Peace Prize. Rothschild presented King with a commemorative Steuben bowl. The banquet was Atlanta’s first interracial banquet ...
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Of the more cinematic, historic moments from Martin Luther King Jr.’s biography—the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the Selma marches in 1965—the only one from the last year of King’s life is of the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where...