ATLANTA — It has been 50 years since the assassination of one America’s greatest leaders who would change the world forever, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee. An assassin silenced the voice that had energized America’s civil rights movement and challenged nation to live up to its highest ideals.
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