Martin Luther King Jr. worked to transform American society. The impact of his legacy reverberates today, posing fundamental questions about the unresolved problems he confronted.
Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership in the Civil Right Movement spanned from age twenty-six until his assassination at age thirty-nine on April 4, 1968 when he was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.