Over five hundred marchers were stopped just outside of Selma by state troopers and were told to go home. ... King's civil rights movements came to an abrupt halt when he was assassinated April 4, 1968, in the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. The president then declared April 7 a national day of mourning for King (Biography 1-7). ...
She is a very big inspiration to me and many other dancers across t he world. ... Later he and his mistress were both killed in the April of 1945. ... A brewers son, the third or five children, he was a shy, retiring child, pampered by his three sisters and deeply attached to his mother, a strong-willed, demanding woman who from the first instilled in him a strict sense of obedience and duty." ...
His original name was Michael King Junior, and when he was only five years old his father changed both their names after the Protestant reformer. ... He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On April 3rd the night before he was assassinated he gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. ...
His original name was Michael King Junior, and when he was only five years old his father changed both their names after the Protestant reformer. ... He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On April 3rd the night before he was assassinated he gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. ...
