Mississippi also celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Alabama is the only other state that combines the Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. holidays.

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

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi ... Luther King as “the Rev. Dr. Extremist Agitator Martin Luther King, Jr ...

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 ...

(WNDU) - We are looking ahead to a special event that the Martin Luther King Jr. Senior Men’s Club is holding on Friday morning at Darden Elementary School. It’s the sixth annual Career Day.

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

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 significant damage.