Visual Histories of MLK
Full-Color Pictures Of Martin Luther King Jr. - Sitting for a portrait at Atlanta University, circa 1963.
Stevie Wonder’s 1981 call for an MLK holiday. click to find Stevie Wonder’s speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. January 15, 1981, at the rally calling for an MLK holiday
The picture was taken by Ernest Withers in ’63 as King is confronted by police at the funeral of Medgar Evers
King relaxes at home with his wife, Coretta, and his daughter Yolanda in May 1956. The Kings had four children in all.
Full-Color Pictures Of Martin Luther King Jr. - King leads a prayer in a church before the second Selma to Montgomery civil rights march.
On January 27, 1956, King outlines strategies for the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama. In the front row is Rosa Parks
In March 1968, King displays a poster to be used for an upcoming Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign was set to begin on April 22, 1968.
Thousands of funeral marchers gathered outside Ebenezer Baptist Church prepare to walk five miles to Morehouse College where another service for King is held on April 9, 1968.
Protesters marching following King's death, 1968.
Stevie’s song and tireless campaigning, led directly to the enshrinement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, observed since January 1986. Here's him and Coretta at the holiday's first ceremony
MLK and his wife, Coretta Scott King
With his son Martin Luther III standing next to him, King pulls up a cross that had been burned on the front lawn of his home in April 1960.
King talks with a group of college students in September 1960. The students were organizing sit-ins to protest Atlanta’s lunch-counter segregation.
Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama