Read an excerpt from Daddy King here on TIME.com. Martin Luther King Sr’s graduation photo, taken upon earning his degree from Morehouse College in 1930. By the time he earned his degree, he had ...

A Look Back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Family Photos on What Would Have Been His 96th Birthday The revered Civil Rights leader was assassinated on April 4. 1968 at just 39 years old By Stephanie ...

Photographer Richard Copley recalls covering Martin Luther King, Jr. and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee, 51 years ago, when he was a college student.

Civil Rights activist Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta, daughter Yolanda, 5, & Martin Luther III, 3, sitting together as they play piano in their livingroom, Atlanta, Georgia, 1960.

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King laugh during entertainment at the St. Jude Hospital in Montgomery the night before the march to the Capitol, 1965.