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Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. For some, King's assassination meant the end of the strategy of nonviolence. [32] Others in the movement reaffirmed the need to carry on King's and the movement's work.
The Jan. 23 executive order gives intelligence officials two weeks to come up with a plan to make the remaining JFK assassination files available to the public, and 45 days for the RFK and MLK ...
Inspirational MLK trivia as we remember the remarkable civil rights activist. Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. With 30 Fascinating Facts About the Civil Rights Icon
3. He Became a Civil Rights Leader at Just 26. In 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. was elected to the executive committee of the Montgomery, Alabama, NAACP and president of the Montgomery Improvement ...
The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence as it had done a year earlier, in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and four people were killed.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
The family said they had to endure the loss over the last 56 years and had only one request of the president.
Martin Luther King Jr., A Current Analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (PDF version). Martin Luther King Jr., A Current Analysis, officially released as File 104-10125-10133, is a previously classified 20-page analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Martin Luther King Jr., created on March 12, 1968, only three weeks before King's assassination, which sparked several ...