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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.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the ...
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, thousands of U.S. troops stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, were sent to Chicago for riot control duty. Several black civilians were killed.
The two-day riot that occurred after King's assassination was small compared with riots in other cities, but its aftermath – a 9 + 1 ⁄ 2-month occupation by the National Guard – highlighted the depth of Wilmington's racial problem. During the riot, which occurred on April 9–10, 1968, the mayor asked for a small number of National ...
The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established on September 15, 1976 by U.S. House Resolution 1540 [7] to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively.
Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) got into a yelling match Thursday during a congressional hearing about the July assassination attempt on President-elect ...
Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 [1] – May 20, 2000) was an American restaurateur and the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
In the July attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Penn., the would-be assassin, armed with an AK-47, was killed by a member of Trump’s security detail. The second attempt on Trump’s life, …