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Equal Rights has been a topic since the beginning of time. Minorities have always wanted equal treatment. Throughout U.S. history, many people have treated African Americans as lesser by segregating them in churches, schools, buses, restaurants, and many more places. People knew that they must take action if they wanted to make a change. Martin …
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When news broke that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, people couldn’t help but feel anger and outrage. King, who had started a revolution to end social injustice, had just been killed, and many people were left wondering if they would forever be stuck …
Continue reading “The End of an Era: The Riots After the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.”
