Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Two years later, his remains were moved from Southview Cemetery into a crypt as part of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. When Coretta Scott King died in 2006, she was laid to rest in this expanded tomb faced with white marble. The couple’s gravesite is surrounded by a reflection pool and an eternal flame. Also part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District is the former civil rights leader’s boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he preached.
