Solemn ceremony marks MLK’s death 57 years ago
Public officials and others gathered at the National Civil Rights Museum Friday evening to commemorate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at that site on April 4, 1968.
Topic: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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April 2025
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June 2024
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The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
Lawson organized the sanitation workers strike that fatefully drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. Lawson said he was at first paralyzed and forever saddened by King’s assassination.
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April 2024
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MLK’s son calls for ‘a higher road’ from balcony where his father died
Fifty-six years to the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son stood on the balcony where his father was fatally wounded in 1968 and talked about the movement King led in the here and now.
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MLK III says current times and painful memories bring him to Memphis
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May 2023
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Conaway: From King to Kent State, change burns in a nation under fire
“With that tragic event came an understanding that we have the unique responsibility to reject everything that pulled that trigger, the national events and mindsets that were behind that bullet then and now.”
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April 2023
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Morris: If Martin Luther King Jr. were in Memphis in 2023, what would he want to do this week?
“I believe that the truth is to be found, and we can find it the same way that King was looking for it on the night of April 4, 1968.”
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Opinion: King’s preaching on justice — and on faith
“Would that Memphis and its surrounding communities realize King’s dream and be a compelling model for the nation.”
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MLK anniversary offers broader view of Civil Rights Movement and present
Two history professors, looking at the city’s Civil Rights Movement since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 55 years ago, talk about Tyre Nichols, police reform and where today’s movement is headed on “Behind The Headlines.”
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January 2023
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National Civil Rights Museum marks King Day with photo exhibit
“This is about celebrating Dr. King’s life, his work and what he’s done,” said Noelle Trent with the National Civil Rights Museum. “King Day is a birthday party, and we should be excited, happy, and be celebrating the life of Dr. King.”
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Here’s how you can celebrate MLK Day in Memphis
There are multiple ways Memphis-area groups will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth.
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November 2022
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Guest column: How a rabbi inspired my role at the National Civil Rights Museum today
“Seeing history as informing who we are and what we must do in the present no matter what befalls us as a city, nation, and world.”
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May 2022
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National Civil Rights Museum launches ‘Solidarity Now!’ exhibit
The national tour of “Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign” debuted at the Memphis museum in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
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Guest column: May 1 is a day to focus on the workers of the world
We must strip hateful politics from the rhetoric we use every day and advocate for all of us to be able to live with enough food on the table and to have a meaningful job that will pay our basic bills.
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April 2022
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King’s voice speaks again at Civil Rights Museum on anniversary of his death
The National Civil Rights Museum commemorated the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, April 4. The recordings of King’s sermons resonated with the times as one of those in his inner circle returned for what has become an annual pilgrimage.
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Interfaith MLK PrayWalk honors King’s legacy
MLK PrayWalk: An Interfaith Prayer Service and Walk of Hope started with a gathering at St. Peter’s Church and concluded on the grounds of the National Civil Rights Museum.
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February 2022
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New exhibit highlights St. Jude’s Black history
“Just as the Lorraine (Motel) was one of the few places in the 1960s where African Americans were welcomed, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors to all at the height of formal segregation,” said Russell Wigginton, president of the National Civil Rights Museum.
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January 2022
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Memphis educators share lessons on MLK
Memphis educators share resources they use to teach the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tom Bailey ends four decades of Mid-South journalism
Like Elvis, Tom Bailey started in Tupelo and found his way to Memphis. He’s now ending a journalism career that spans four decades in the two locations.
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August 2021
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‘Hidden hero': The overlooked civil rights activism of Adjua Naantaanbuu
As Memphis’ pandemic-delayed Africa In April festival starts Friday, supporters say it’s time to honor one of its early organizers, Adjua Naantaanbuu.
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April 2021
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Damaged historical marker at former slave market rededicated Downtown
The marker notes the location of a slave market run by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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Civil Rights Museum observes anniversary of MLK’s death
The program airs at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 4, and concludes with a moment of silence and bells tolling at 6:01 p.m., the time on April 4, 1968, when King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
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Opinion: Dr. King was an activist, but also a preacher
‘Commemorations with little or no consideration for King as preacher, make me wonder how many King admirers are unaware of the transcendent religious experience that was his defining moment.’
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Opinion: Without Dr. King, the 1968 sanitation strike might have been a footnote
“I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”
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January 2021
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Grizzlies help families in need for Martin Luther King Day of Service
The Grizzlies partnered with FedEx, Feed the Children and the Women’s Foundation to help provide food, household items and school supplies to 1,200 families in need.
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Organizations commemorate King’s legacy with socially distant service
Groups are finding virtual ways to serve for the MLK holiday this year because of the pandemic.
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Civil Rights Museum to hold virtual ‘King Day’
Memphis musicians Garry Goin, TykeT, Karen Brown and Adajyo will perform.
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