The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holds newspaper describing Los Angeles rioting as he makes statement in Miami, Florida on August 14, 1965 that he deplored the violence on the west coast. King was en route to a speaking engagement in San Juan. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)

President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., after presenting a pen to the civil rights leader after Johnson signed the voter rights bill at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 6, 1965. At center is Rep. Ray Madden, D-Ind. (AP Photo)

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center foreground, walks in vanguard of crowd estimated at more than 10,000 persons who gathered in downtown Chicago, July 26, 1965 to protest segregation in the city's schools. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is shown delivering the commencement address at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala, May 31, 1965. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as he sits down following his speech to the joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature in Boston, April 22, 1965. Applauding at left is Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke. King will lead a civil rights march to Boston Common tomorrow. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, is presented a large rose by Mrs. Virgil Wood, right, who is shaking hands with King's aide Rev. Ralph Abernathy outside the Patrick Campbell School in Roxbury section of Boston, Mass., April 22, 1965. King, who is in Boston to lead a civil rights march Friday, toured schools and housing in the Roxbury section before addressing a joint session of the Massachusettts Legislature later in the afternoon. (AP Photo)

Civil rights marchers pass billboard along highway attacking their leader Dr. Martin Luther King in Montgomery on March 24, 1965, which purports to show him ??sat Communist Training School.??? Reports have it that she signs were erected by a segregationist group. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights protest March leader, addresses massed crowd in front of Alabama???s state capitol at Montgomery on March 25, 1965 as he called for a continuation of the protests against alleged voting discrimination against Negroes. The rally climaxed a five-day civil rights march from Selma, Ala., starting Sunday, to Montgomery. (AP Photo)

A solid line of state troopers stands shoulder to shoulder on steps of Alabam???s State Capitol at Montgomery on March 25, 1965 barring Dr. Martin Luther King, leader of the civil rights marchers, from entering the capitol. The Alabama state flag at top and the Confederate flag under it, fly from the capital dome. (AP Photo)

Dr. Ralph Abernathy, right, close associate to Dr. Martin Luther King, leaders of the civil rights march on Alabama state capitol at Montgomery, Ala. on March 25, 1965, reads papers served on the marchers by sheriff deputies seeking to halt a Negro boycott of buses in Selma Ala., where today???s march started five days ago. (AP Photo)

On the fifth day of the Alabama voter registration march, thousands of civil rights marchers are massed together to begin their three-mile walk on the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on March 25, 1965. Leading the group is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, who will give a closing speech, with his wife, Coretta Scott King, at right. On August 6, 1965, U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it, which ordered federal officials to oversee the local voter registrations. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, leading a 54-mile, five-day march of civil rights demonstrators from Selma, Alabama, to the state Capitol at Montgomery, eases on his shoe after a roadside rest stop during second day of march on March 22, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. The march is in protest of Alabama voting laws. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader, strikes out of camp near Selma, Alabama, March 22, 1965, as his protest march started its second lap. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery. (AP Photo)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and his civil rights marchers head for Montgomery, the state's capitol, March 21, 1965 during a five day, 50 mile walk to protest voting laws. Soldiers were called out by President Johnson to protect the marchers. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. links arms with other civil rights leaders as they begin the march to the state capitol in Montgomery from Selma, Ala. on March 21, 1965. The demonstrators are marching for voter registration rights for blacks. Dr. King is fourth from right, and Dr. Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations, is third from right. They are wearing leis given by a Hawaiian group. (AP Photo)

Demonstrators in the 50-mile march on Alabama's state Capitol at Montgomery make their way along Route 80 after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge over Alabama River from Selma, Ala., on March 21, 1965. The five-day march, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is to protest Alabama's voting regulations for blacks. In the background beyond the bridge is the city of Selma. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, is flanked by Sheriff Mac Sim Butler as the two leave the courthouse following march in Montgomery, March 18, 1965. King conferred with the sheriff for several hours after he lead several thousands marchers to the courthouse. At right with pipe is James Foreman. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a protest march to the courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., on March 17, 1965. From left are Ralph Abernathy, James Forman, Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. S.L. Douglas and John Lewis. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a parade of several thousand civil rights supporters to the courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., on March 17, 1965. King said the march is to protest rough police treatment of voter rights demonstrators yesterday. Dr. King can be seen in first row of people linking arms together, seventh person from left. (AP Photo)