On this day 46 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated - TopicsExpress



          

On this day 46 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. King traveled to Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1968, to protest unequal wages and working conditions imposed by then-mayor Henry Loeb. At the time, Memphis paid African American workers significantly lower wages than whites. In addition African Americans received no pay if they stayed home during bad weather; consequently, most were compelled to work even in driving rain and snow storms. On April 3, King returned to Memphis to address a gathering at the Mason Temple (World Headquarters of the Church of God in Christ). His airline flight to Memphis was delayed by a bomb threat against his plane.With a thunderstorm raging outside, King delivered the last speech of his life, now known as the Ive Been to the Mountaintop address. Join us as we pay tribute to his life and his legacy.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:07:08 +0000

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