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Thursday, April 04, 2013

45 Years Ago Today

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

In the months before his assassination, Martin Luther King became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He organized a Poor People's Campaign to focus on the issue, including an interracial poor people's march on Washington, and in March 1968 traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers' protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African-American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wish he was around now to put some of these idiots in ck.

Anonymous said...

i admired him. i also wish he were still living to show the proper example of "race relations".

we certainly don't look up to the likes of obama, jackson, sharpton, and many other ignorant blacks that love to use the race card at every opportunity.

those of us who are past all that and immediately recognize the "lie" for what it is, are really weary of hearing their ugly, deceptive words.

Anonymous said...

I know where I was when it happened.

Inspirational man to people of all colors.

Anonymous said...

He was a great man that respected God (not Allah).

Anonymous said...

Another day that will live in infamy.

Anonymous said...

His message was true, heartfelt and worthy. Yes.
But keep in mind, personally he did not live up to standards. This is indicative of the lower class level immorality and lifestyle that is prevalent in the Democratic community as a whole.
They are not moral, wholesome minded people. Of course they will masquerade and tell you they are at church on Sunday but reality is anything goes with them. Kinda like Caligula. We all know how that ended.

Anonymous said...

@ 8:55
God and Allah are literally the same thing. Muslims believe in the exact same God Christians do.