vil rights.Early in 1968 Martin traveled to Memphis Tennessee to support a strike of poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, 1968 Martin was assassinated by a sniper, by the name of James Earl Ray. Martin Luther king JR’s death shocked the nation and started riots everywhere by the African American people in many cities. He was later buried in Atlanta under a monument inscribed with the final words of his famous “I Have a dream”speech. THE END ...
