‼️ On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on balcony outside his second-story room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike & was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw & severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old. ⚫️ Black Americans were devastated, pained, and angered. As word of the assassinat

What an amazing day! A powerful moment in history was made today. On October 14, 1964, the world received the groundbreaking news: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At just 35 years old, he was the youngest person to ever receive the honor. The Nobel Committee didn’t just recognize a man; they recognized a movement. They celebrated his unwavering leadership in “the furtherance of brotherhood among men” and his firm commitment to nonviolence as the most powerful w