1968 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4/4/20251 min read


On this day, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting a strike by the city's sanitation workers. The assassin was identified as James Earl Ray.
His assassination sparked widespread riots in over 100 cities across the United States.





















