President JimmyCarter played a pivotal role in preserving Dr. MartinLutherKingJr.'s birth home and neighborhood by designating it as a national historic site, now a national park.
The revered Civil Rights leader was assassinated on April 4. 1968 at just 39 years old Bettmann Archive/Getty To many of us, MartinLutherKingJr. was a mega-force for the Civil Rights ...