Martin Luther King, Jr., was an initiate of Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the Boston city-wide chapter. He pledged while a PhD student at Boston University.
In today's Washington Post, there is an article about the MLK Memorial Project:
The foundation working to build a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall has raised a third of the $100 million in private donations needed and plans to begin construction in 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Jan15.html