Today, in 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. This is why he was in Memphis.
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Today, in 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. This is why he was in Memphis.
Yes. He was in the middle of his Poor People's Campaign and though Memphis was an unscheduled stopover - the Sanitation Strike was what the Poor People's Campaign was all about -- helping rid the nation of poverty and economic disenfranchisement that promoted unequal rights and treatment of the races.