Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy, Fifty Years Later
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In this April 3, 1968 file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., a day before he was assassinated.
( AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File )
( AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File )