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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons.
An executive order from January continues to be fulfilled following the release of files regarding the assassination of Rev.
The Trump administration released a trove of previously classified documents related to Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...
The MLK files refer to the newly released FBI and CIA documents related to the 1968 assassination of Dr. King.
The family of former Shelby County Mayor William Bill N. Morris has announced his passing on Friday. The family reports that ...
The Trump administration on Monday released 200,000 pages of the FBI's files on the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther ...
The King family remains convinced someone else killed the civil rights leader and say they’ll look at the newly released ...
Almost 250,000 pages related to the death of Martin Luther King Jr have been released by the Trump administration.
The National Archives released Martin Luther King assassination records, including over 240,000 pages from the FBI, CIA, and ...
Scholars and historians say trove of 240,000 pages offers insight into how the FBI worked to undermine Civil Rights leader’s impact.
King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee, while standing on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. The civil rights leader had been in the city to support a sanitation workers' strike.