| ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY | |
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On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39. King was visiting Memphis to support a sanitation workers strike and was leaving his hotel to go to dinner when he was shot. The previous day, during what would be his last sermon, King spoke about having seen the “promised land,” adding that he “may not get there with you.” After word of his death spread, riots broke out in many American cities, including Washington, D.C., where the National Guard was called in to restore peace. King’s funeral took place in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9. |
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