Strikers marched on Main Street as a result, and a standoff with police began. Officers used clubs and mace on the protestors, garnering the attention of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Police using mace on a crowd of people outside Goldsmith's Department Store on Main Street, Memphis, on February 23, 1968.

Memphis sanitation workers demanded safer working conditions, higher wages, and recognition of their union. The strike brought civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. to the city.

An archive of the Western Herald’s coverage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dec. 18, 1963, visit to Western Michigan University. In 1968, King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

He cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference shortly after his home and church were bombed, and he became its president after King’s assassination.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is more than just a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement; his legacy is deeply rooted in his tireless activism, his philosophical comm

Martin Luther ... four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel, but took 15 years to become a federal holiday. WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in ...

King led several nonviolent campaigns in Birmingham, known at the time as "the most segregated city in America."

Charter school enrollment decreased by over 1,000 students between the current and most recent school year, according to MBJ’s recently updated List of charter school operators in the Memphis area.