Martin Luther King (41 images)

WAP65100901 - 16 JANUARY 1999 - WASHINGTON, DC, USA: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (R) confers with Albert Raby, Chicago civil rights leader and head of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, at the National Council of Churches resort camp here late October 8, 1965. Dr. King had been meeting with Chicago civil rights leaders and later outlined his assault on segregation problems in Chicago. cc/sp/files UPI

Original caption: Sen. Edward Kennedy was greeted here on August 8, 1966 in Jackson, Mississippi, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (L) and Mississippi NAACP Field Director Charles Evers (R) as he arrived for a speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He told the group the U.S. should spend as much creating equal opportunities for Negroes as it does in Vietnam. (UPI Photo/Files)

Joseph Lowrey of the SCLC and Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speak at a church about martin Luther King's legacy and the needs for today and the future on July 7, 1983.

Karate expert Yoshimi Inouye shows Nancy Reagan a tricky maneuver during her visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School April 10, 1986. The Japanese Embassy sponsored the karate exibition as Mrs, reagan made her second visit to the inner-city school, which the White House adopted in 1983 as part of its National Partnership in Education program. (UPI PHOTO/Larry Rubenstein/FILES)