MLK Part III

Abi breaks down the events leading up to MLK’s involvement with the Sanitation worker’s strike in Memphis while he prepared for the Poor People’s March. The women discuss King’s last major push for civil rights and powerful words the night before his death. Many believe his words foreshadowed his time had run out. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King suffered a single shot to the neck while waiting to go to dinner. Audio is played from a Smithsonian documentary called MLK: The Assassination Tapes. Abi reads articles from NPR, Time, and History.com on the assassin James Earl Ray and whether people believe he could have done it.