Across the United States, cities, civil rights groups, and various organizations are honoring and remembering Dr. King.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.

The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting a three-day free public commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that will ...

Civil rights leader and American icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning at the age of 84. In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him ...

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Credit: Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize–winning leader of the civil rights movement who helped ...

It marks the 58th anniversary of the civil rights leaders death, and in his honor, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of ...