On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination of the 39-year-old preacher shocked the country, sparking social upheaval from coast to coast in an already turbulent time.
“At least a hundred cities erupted in the days and weeks after,” Historian Elizabeth Hinton told American Experience. “Martin Luther King, the king of love, the king of nonviolence and peace, for him to get assassinated really made the entire future of Black Americans seem as uncertain as ever.”
“How long? Not long!”
60 years ago today, at the culmination of the #Selma to #Montgomery marches to protest for the removal of the discriminatory, racially motivated barriers to Black people exercising the right to vote, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave this speech on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.
“We are not about to turn around.”
Both Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were assassinated. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were not too opposites, they were two Generals fighting on the same side, using different battlefield tactics. In later stages of their lives they both recognised the significance and importance of each other’s strategies and merged their philosophies! ❤️💚🖤
57 years ago today, you were assassinated.
We remember you.
We respect you.
We cherish you.
We honor you.
#MLK
#MartinLutherKingJr
#KingsLastDay
#thankyouMLK
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