Four days after her husband was killed, Coretta Scott King led a march in Memphis. The act reflected her role as a partner in the struggle for civil rights. "I was impelled to come," she said.
An April 6 1968, 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, the very first recruit to Oakland's Black Panther Party, was shot multiple times after he'd surrendered to the police.
Following news that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, riots broke out in his Chicago neighborhood. Fifty years later, some things have changed, but others remain as they were in 1968.
Meat and veggie burgers evolved together in the 20th century, but when it comes to associations with gender, their histories diverge. Anthropologist Barbara J. King explores a new book on the topic.
A bomb threat, a march turned violent and a militant black power group all weighed heavily on the civil rights leader during his last speech in 1968, says Redemption author Joseph Rosenbloom.
NPR's Noel King speaks with Wendi C. Thomas of the website MLK50: Justice Through Journalism about why poverty plagues Memphis and whether sanitation workers are better off today than 50 years ago.
Robert Tunstall, his daughter Karen Hartridge and his grandson James Hartridge about their family's experiences with racism in Memphis and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.