April 4, 1968

Posted April 2, 2008, 3:35 pm by Growing Bolder


One day after his famous "I have been to the mountaintop" address, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King's life and legacy is honored every year with a national holiday, and in 2004, King is posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.


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