A retrospective look at his life and mission.

". . .to make all people truly free, and to make each person feel that they are a human being."

Rosa Parks, December, 1955

Sept. 3 1958: Dr. King is arrested in Albany, GA, while trying to gain admittance to the trial of his colleague, Dr. Ralph Abernathy.

Albany, GA—A demonstrastion to desegregate public facilities, December, 1961

Dr. King in the Police Chief's office in Albany, GA after being arrested on Dec. 16, 1961

Birmingham, AL, 1963

"I send you as sheep, into the midst of wolves"

Through the fire, and the water. . . .

Dr. King in jail in Birmigham, AL

Where he wrote the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in April, 1963

Myrlie Evers at the funeral of her husband, Medgar Evers, murdered June 12, 1963

Selma to Montgomery, 1963

Dr. King and his Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1963

We Shall Overcome!

"I have a dream. . . ."

The March on Washington, 1963

In the White House, 1964

Dr. King and LBJ at the signing of the Civil Rights Bill, July 2, 1964

Dr. King struck by a rock thrown at a march in Cicero, IL, 1966

"Freedom must be demanded."

"We must let them know that nothing can stop us—not even death itself."

Dr. King with two of his daughters

Dr. King and his young son

Dr. King preaching

"We have a power—a power that cannot be found in bullets and guns!"

The last photograph taken of Dr. King in Memphis, with sanitation workers just before his death.

Martyred April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN