More than 30,000 spectators are expected to attend Monday’s 38th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in downtown Las Vegas.
Crowds gather around Freemont street to celebrate the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr.
The 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in downtown Las Vegas
Denette Braud, owner of Braud’s Funnel Cake Cafe, talks about what owning her own business means to her.
On April 26, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Las Vegas to speak at the Las Vegas NAACP chapter’s Freedom Banquet. Though the passing decades have left those who attended with sketchy memories of exactly what was said, Esther Langston still remembers the power of the man and his message. (Andrea Cornejo/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Cora Williams moved into a house in west Las Vegas around 1957. Today, her son Howard Williams occupies the same boyhood home that his mother built.