In his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Martin Luther King is worried, tired. For some time, it is heavily criticized, repudiated and unevenly followed. After a series of failures, he struggles to gather the mobs around his sermons, his image declines. Nevertheless, he persists in wanting to prove that non-violence is the solution. It is for this reason that he returned to Memphis, the day before, on April 3, 1968, to support a strike of garbage collectors, blacks in the city. It is hoped that, this time, the event does not end by looting and shootings. The municipality…
April 4, 1968. The day that Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis
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