Martin Luther King Jr.

The Atlanta University Center is the world's largest consortium of HBCUs, encompassing Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, M...

Documents the Civil Rights Movement through exhibits, oral histories, and artifacts. Located across the street from 16th Street Baptist Church, bombed...

The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument preserves and interprets the places and events associated with the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, ...

King delivered his final speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop" at Mason Temple (COGIC headquarters) on April 3, 1968, the night before his assassination, while supporting Black sanitation workers' strike in Memphis.

Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell in direct response to King's assassination — Mitchell began teaching Harlem children in a garage six months after April 4, 1968.

The church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as pastor from 1954 to 1960, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the organizational center of the Mont...

Preserves the birthplace, church, and grave of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn neighborhood. The park encompasses Ebenezer Baptis...

EJI's newest Legacy Site, opened in 2026, sits on a hill overlooking downtown Montgomery and details the pivotal decade from 1955 to 1965 — the Montgo...

Built around the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum chronicles the American civil rights movement fro...

King used Penn Center as a retreat and planning site during the Civil Rights Movement; it was the first school in the South for formerly enslaved people (1862).

King and Ralph Abernathy allied with this denomination after dissidents from the National Baptist Convention formed PNBC in 1961 to actively support the Civil Rights Movement.

The 54-mile trail commemorates the 1965 Voting Rights March led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. The march across the Edmund Pettus Bridg...