The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Memphis Church Key to Martin Luther King's Last ... placards bearing that slogan. King traveled to Memphis that year to lead a march and was assassinated the day before on April 4, 1968.

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has suffered a devastating fire MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A historic Black church in ...