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The Atlanta Boy Choir sings a musical selection near a painting of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Georgia’s 27th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday tribute at the state Capitol in Atlanta on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Georgia's top elected officials joined members of the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the civil rights icon's birthday. King's actual birthday is Jan. 15. The Georgia native, who was born in Atlanta, would have been 83 years old. David Tulis/AP
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures and shouts to his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., on April 30, 1967, as he urges America to repent and abandon what he called its 'tragic, reckless adventure in Vietnam.' Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. AP/File
Sheriff William N. Morris Jr. (l.) escorts James Earl Ray in the Shelby County, Memphis, Tenn., jail. Mr. Ray was convicted of the assassination of civil rights and antiwar activist the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 10, 1969. Shelby County Register's office/AP/File
In 2008, standing in front of the former Lorraine Motel, the site of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968, Memphis sanitation workers Elmore Nickelberry (c.) and his son, Terrence (l.) hold replicas of the placard used by strikers in Memphis, Tenn. Carl Juste/Miami Herald/Newscom/File
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is given a welcome home kiss by his wife, Coretta, upon his return to Atlanta, following his release from Reidsville State Prison on bond, on October 27, 1960. King's children, Yolanda and Martin Luther III, join the welcome celebration. AP/File
Civil rights marchers stream across the Alabama River in this March 21, 1965, file photo on the first of a five-day, 50-mile march to the State Capitol at Montgomery. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holds hands with his wife, Coretta Scott King, during the march. AP/File
Marchers cross the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 21, 1965. The civil rights marchers are led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This is the start of their five day, 50-mile march to the State Capitol of Montgomery. They are fighting for voter registration rights for African-Americans, who are discouraged from registering to vote. AP/File
Benjamin Todd Jealous (c.), president and CEO of the NAACP, leads several hundred marchers, including Spokane Mayor Mary Verner, into the Lilac Bow of Riverfront Park in Spokane, Wash. on April 3, after marching from the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Spokesman-Review, J. Bart Rayniak/AP
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses of N.Y. at the Biltmore Hotel in New York. John Littlewood/Staff/File
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife, Coretta, after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., on March 22, 1956. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses in a campaign to desegregate the bus system, but a judge suspended his $500 fine pending appeal. Gene Herrick/AP/File
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy (l.) and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leaders of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., are shown leaving their attorney's office in Montgomery, Ala. Gene Herrick/AP/File
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his 'I Have a Dream' speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. AP/File
With the United Nations headquarters in New York City as a backdrop, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told an estimated 125,000 peace marchers that the United States should end the bombing of North Vietnam. He also urged students to organize communities against the war. John Littlewood/Staff
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The older generation is excited about honoring the man they say made desegregated schools and restaurants possible by demanding civil rights. Children may know Martin Luther King, Jr. was an important religious and political figure, but become tongue-tied when asked for details.
At the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Crenshaw in Los Angeles, the Michael Brown family is settling into folding camp chairs early for a good view of the annual MLK parade. This is the man that changed their lives forever “by setting the path,” as Mr. Brown puts it, rattling off King’s accomplishments from boycotts to marches to speeches.
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