apr 4, 1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Stokely Carmichael defines this moment as " the death of all reasonable hope [MLK was] the only man of our race... of the older generation who the militants and the revolutionaries and the masses of black people would still listen to”Added to timeline:
Date:
apr 4, 1968
Now
~ 57 years ago