On Sept. 20, 1958, as Martin Luther King Jr was signing his newly published book at a Harlem bookstore, a 42-year-old woman, apparently deranged, suddenly started screaming and plunged a knife ...

Martin Luther King Jr. recovers from surgery in bed at New York's Harlem Hospital on following an operation to remove steel letter opener from his chest after being stabbed by a mentally disturbed ...

Among the many roles Harlem played in the rich history of America was saving the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in 1958, when the minister was stabbed in an uptown department store.

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

Very few people have heard of the story behind one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last visits to Harlem.During an era when the 29-year old was starting to gain national popularity, Dr. King ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a young, rising star in the burgeoning civil rights movement in September 1958, when he sat signing copies of his first book in a Harlem department store.

The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after being attacked in 1958 with a letter opener lodged ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The Community Kitchen and Food Pantry in Harlem is kicking it into high gear on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Day of Service. They're preparing and delivering nearly two ...

WOODBRIDGE -- The image is burned into the mind of Eugene S. Callender, a New York minister who stood beside Martin Luther King Jr, as he led march after march through the south. On Jan. 18, 1965 ...

But in New York City, businesses on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard […] HARLEM, Manhattan – Naming a street after the civil rights leader is, of course, intended as a tribute.

Martin Luther King Jr. sits for his for police mugshot after his arrest for directing a boycott of segregated buses, Feb. 24, 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama. The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. 9.

A lesser-known attack on Martin Luther King, Jr. occurred at a book signing in Harlem on September 20th, 1958, almost a decade before his assassination. At Blumstein’s Department Store, located ...