President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

President Jimmy Carter presents the Medal of Freedom here to Coretta Scott King, accepting posthumously for her slain husband, Martin Luther King Jr, for his civil rights work.

President Jimmy Carter played a pivotal role in preserving Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home and neighborhood by designating it as a national historic site, now a national park.

King, 61, tells PEOPLE that her father, Martin Luther King Jr., would be "disappointed" with today's political climate Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., says Jimmy Carter ...

Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., interviewed President Jimmy Carter in a National Park Service program at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.

Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., tells PEOPLE that Jimmy Carter would have a hard time getting elected president in today's modern political system Skip to content PEOPLE ...

B orn less than five years apart in Georgia, the late President Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. both came up during the civil rights movement, rising to the top of American politics to be ...