History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1994 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Memphis
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The idea
On April fourth, nineteen sixty-eight, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, Digital History records.
In practice
Violence erupting in one hundred sixty-eight cities, leaving forty-six dead and three thousand five hundred injured.
Where people slip
The anchor calls his death a severe blow to the vision of Black and White Americans working together peacefully to end injustice.
Your place on the trail
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