MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Security will be tight throughout downtown Memphis on Wednesday as thousands of people come together at the National Civil Rights Museum to remember a solemn anniversary.
Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Tennessee. Editor’s ...