Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. displays his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964. The 35-year-old Dr. King was honored for promoting the principle of non-violence in the civil rights movement. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, receives the Nobel Peace Prize from the hands of Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964. The 35-year-old Reverend King, the youngest man ever to receive the prize, is the 12th American and the third Black to be given the honor. (AP Photo)

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, American civil rights leader, receives the Nobel Peace Prize from the hands of Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964. (AP Photo)

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King displays pictures of three civil rights workers at news conference on Dec. 4, 1964 in New York City. The workers were slain in Mississippi last summer. Dr. King commended the FBI for its arrests in Mississippi on Dec. 4 in connection with the slayings. King holds up photos of Andrew Goodman; James Chaney; and Michael Schwerner. The three civil rights workers disappeared in Mississippi near the town of Philadelphia, northeast of Jackson. (AP Photo/ John Lindsay)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King at a New York airport on December 4, 1964. They were en route to Norway for the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo)

Martin Luther King leads march from Selma to Montgimery, Alabama, March 1965. (AP Photo)

Martin Luther King leads march from Selma to Montgimery, Alabama, March 1965. Martin Luther King in some shots. (AP Photo)

Martin Luther King leads march from Selma to Montgimery, Alabama, March 1965. (AP Photo)

Integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receives word by phone that he has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as he lies in hospital bed in Atrlanta, Ga., October 14, 1964, where he went for a checkup. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS MARTIN LUTHER KING NA KONFERENCJI PRASOWEJ W LONDYNIE. LIDER RUCHU PRZECIW SEGREGACJI RASOWEJ ZOSTAL ZAPROSZONY NA BRYTYJSKA PREMIERE SWOJEJ OSTATNIEJ KSIAZKI "WHY WE CAN'T WAIT" (FILES) US clergyman, civil rights leader and future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin Luther KIng speaking 21 September 1964 in London at the press conference. The leader of the Movement against Racial Segregation was launching the British version of his latest book on the civil rights struggle in America, "Why We Can't Wait". Martin Luther King was assassinated 04 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. King's killing sent shock waves through American society at the time, and is still regarded as a landmark event in recent US history.

In his photo released by the Vatican, Pope Paul VI poses at the Vatican with American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a private audience, Sept. 18, 1964. With the pontiff and King are Msgr. Paolo Marcinkus of Chicago, who acted as interpreter, and with King is his aide, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, right. (AP Photo/Vatican Photo)

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left, and his aide, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, right, enjoy a day off sightseeing at Saint Peter's Square, on September 17, 1964, while visiting Rome, Italy, for an audience with Pope Paul VI. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Reverend Martin Luther King, American civil rights leader, invited to Berlin by West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, visits on September 13, 1964 the red wall. Here he is seen at the border Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo)

Berlin's Evangelical bishop Otto Dibelius, left, congratulates Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King after Dr. King was awarded an honorary doctorate of church-high school Berlin, Sept. 13, 1964, Berlin, Germany. In the background Probat Gruber. (AP Photo/Edwin Reichert)

Aug 25, 1964; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Reverend MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. at the National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. (Credit Image: ? KEYSTONE Pictures USA)/ eyevine

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , right, chats with Greenwood African Americans on their front porch during his door-to-door campaign, telling all African Americans to register to vote and support his Miss. Freedom Democratic party. King arrived on July 21, 1964 in Greenwood for the beginning of a 5-day tour of Mississippi towns. (AP Photo/JAB)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the phone in St. Augustine, Fla., to Washington, after a riot on the streets of St. Augustine, June 25, 1964, when civil rights demonstrators were attacked by white segregationists during a nighttime march. King was requesting help from U.S. Marshals (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reacts in St. Augustine, Fla., after learning that the senate passsed the civil rights bill, June 19, 1964. (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mops perpiration from his neck at a news conference in which he announced future plans for the integration move in St. Augustine, Fla., June 17, 1964. King remarked,

Motel manager James Brock, right, stops civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., left, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy at the door of his motel restaurant when they tried to enter with a group to have lunch, June 12, 1964. The integrationists were arrested when they refused to leave the premises. (AP Photo)