On this day, April 4th, in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. King was born on January 15, 1929 at Altanta, GA to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta King. Martin Luther King is famous for his job as a Civil Rights leader. During the Civil Rights Movement, King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in 1963 helped organize the March on Washington where's gave his famous"I Have A Dream" speech. In 1968, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference began working on the Poor People's Campaign to help address issues of economic justice. In late March, he traveled to Memphis, TN in support of Black sanitary public works employees, whom had been striking for 3 months. On his way down, his flight has been delayed because of a bomb threat made on the plane in which he would be traveling. In his final speech on April 3 in the Mason Temple in Memphis he explained: King was s