Assassination and Legacy
By 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr.'s deal with
demonstrations and processions on the wear, he was weary of going to jail, and
was living under the constant threat of death starts. The slow progress on
civil rights in America and other growing criticism from African-American leaders
was becoming discouraged. Washington plans to revive his movement on the other,
and was working to bring attention to a matter of widening the range. In the
spring of 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers' strike last crusade King
attract workers. April 3, what proved to be an eerily prophetic speech, he told
supporters, "I've seen the Promised Land. I may not be with you. But I
want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised
Land." The next day, a balcony outside his room at Lorraine motel, Martin
Luther King Jr. was struck by a sniper's bullet. Shooter, an angry drifter and
ex-convict named James Earl Ray, finally, two months after an international
manhunt was detained. Killing more than 100 cities nationwide riots and protests
sparked. In 1969, Ray pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 99
years in prison. The April 23, 1998, died on the prison.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, race relations
in the United States had a seismic effect. Years after his death, his age, the
most widely known African-American leader. His life and work is a national
holiday, schools and public buildings named after him, and in Washington, DC
has been honored with a memorial on Independence Mall, as well as his life, but
remains controversial. In 1970, the FBI files, released under the Freedom of
Information Act, revealed that he was under surveillance by the government, and
the adulterous relationship and the involvement of communist influence. Over
the years, extensive archival research, his life has been a more balanced and
comprehensive assessment, he played as a complex figure: imperfect, fallible
and movement, with which he was associated with his control over the limited,
yet a visionary leader who is deeply non-violent ways were committed to achieving
social justice.
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