., and Alberta Williams King. ... While he was getting the Poor People Campaign assembled, he made a stop in Tennessee, to support a group of black garbage men that went on strike. When King stepped out of his hotel room in Tennessee and onto the balcony, James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, shot him. ...

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Michael Luther King was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Alberta Williams King a schoolteacher and Pastor Martin Luther King. ... King was assainated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, he was there supporting black city workers. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate