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The Assassination of Martin Luther King

Mike Palumbo February 26, 2009 No Comments

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at age 39, in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray. He had been in Memphis

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  • Preface
  • World War I
    • The Start of the War
    • The Western Front
    • The Christmas Truce of 1914
    • The Southern Front-Gallipoli
    • German Submarine Warfare
    • The United States Enters the War
    • Segregated Armed Forces
    • The End of the War
  • The Industrial Age, Immigration and Labor Wars
    • The Industrial Age
    • Ellis Island and Immigration
    • Xenophobia
    • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • The Rise of Labor Unions
    • Working Conditions in Mines and Mills
    • Famous Mine and Mill Strikes
    • Labor in the Textile Mills
    • The Lawrence Mill Strike
    • The Almanac Singers
    • Later-Day Labor Issues
  • The Roaring Twenties
    • Preface – The League of Nations
    • The Twenties Zeitgeist – Cultural Wars
    • The Arrival of the Flapper and Sheik
    • The Lost Generation
    • The “Algonquin Round Table”
    • The Harlem Renaissance
    • Ballyhoo, Fads, Fashions and Follies
    • Charles A. Lindbergh
    • The Scopes Trial
    • Religious Celebrities
    • Car Culture and Consumer Economy
    • Radio, Hollywood, and Art Deco
      • Radio
      • Art Deco
    • Reaction to all the Cultural Change
    • Prohibition
    • Speakeasies and Gangsterism
    • Jazz was the Sound of the Speakeasies
    • The Politics of Passivity
      • Warren G. Harding
      • Calvin Coolidge
    • “The Boom”
    • The Great Stock “Bubble”
    • SUMMARY
  • The Great Depression
    • The Great Economic Disaster
    • Homelessness and Hoovervilles
    • The Plight of the Farmer
    • The Dust Bowl
    • Hoboes
    • The Bonus Army
    • Dance Marathons
    • Hoover’s Failures
    • The Liberal Reaction
    • The Election of 1932
    • The New Deal
      • National Recovery Administration
      • Agricultural Adjustment Administration
      • Farm Security Administration
      • Civilian Conservation Corps
      • Civil Works Administration
      • Works Progress Administration
      • Public Works Administration
      • Tennessee Valley Authority
    • Social Security
    • Opposition to the New Deal
    • Prohibition and Gangsters
    • Pop Culture during the Great Depression
  • Race Relations
    • Introduction
    • The Jim Crow Experience
    • Lynchings
    • The Scottsboro Boys
    • Racial Equality Organizations
    • Segregation, Racial Hatred and Integration
    • The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
    • School Integration
    • The Lunch Counter Sit-ins
    • The Freedom Riders
    • James Meredith’s Attempt to Enroll
    • Desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama
    • The Killing of Medgar Evers
    • The March on Washington
    • Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
    • Freedom Summer
    • The Marches from Selma
    • Northern Urban Riots
    • Black Nationalism and Militancy
    • The Black Panther Party
    • The Assassination of Martin Luther King
  • World War II
    • Inter-war Isolationism
      • The World Marches toward Armageddon
      • The Rise of Italian Fascism
      • The Spanish Civil War
      • Japanese Expansion in the Pacific
    • The Start of World War Two
    • Lend-Lease
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Internment of Japanese-Americans
    • The War in the Atlantic
      • The Battle of Britain
      • Operation Barbarossa
      • Russian Campaign Summer 1942
      • The Battle of Stalingrad
      • The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
    • Mediterranean Campaign and Invasion of Italy
      • The Normandy Landings, D-Day
      • The Battle of the Bulge
    • The Holocaust
    • The Nuremberg Trials
    • The Pacific Theatre
      • The Pacific Theatre – Island hopping
      • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Home Front
      • War Time Production
      • Music and News on the Home Front
      • Entertaining the Troops
  • Post World War II
    • The Cold War
    • The Atomic Scare
    • The Berlin Airlift
    • The Korean “Police Action”
    • The Red Scare
      • The House Un-American Activities Committee
      • McCarthyism and Red Hunting
      • Blacklisting
    • Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Berlin
  • The Fifties
    • Introduction
    • Post-war Politics
      • The 1952 Presidential Election
      • The 1956 Presidential Election
      • The 1960 Presidential Election
    • Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex Speech
    • Suburbanization
    • The Stereotypical Family of the Fifties
    • Baby Boomers, The Consumption Society and Conformity
    • Downtown Gives Way to the Shopping Mall
    • Fifties Diners (Drive-ins)
    • Advent and Growth of Television
    • Television Shaped Family Life in The Fifties
      • Game Shows/Quiz Shows
      • Westerns
      • Kid Shows
      • Sit-Coms
      • Comedy and Variety Shows
      • Anthology Shows
      • 1950s Soap Operas
    • Religion on TV
      • Norman Vincent Peale
      • Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • Billy Graham – William Franklin Graham Jr.
    • Sports on TV in The Fifties
      • Major League Baseball during the 1950s
      • Professional Football in The Fifties
      • College Football during the Fifties
      • Boxing on TV in the Fifties
      • Other Sports on TV in The Fifties
        • NBA/NCAA Basketball
        • Hockey
    • Television of News, Current Events and Politics in the Fifties
    • Significant TV News Events of the Fifties
      • Kefauver Hearings (1950-51)
      • Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech
      • Edward R. Murrow-See It Now
      • McCarthy-Army Hearings
      • MacArthur’s Triumphant Return
      • Presidential Nominating Conventions
      • Presidential Press Conferences
      • Kennedy-Nixon debates
    • Criticism of 1950s Television
    • Polio and The Salk Vaccine
    • Social Criticism in The Fifties
      • The Affluent Society Demanded Conformity
      • Women’s Role in the 1950’s
      • The Fifties’ Teenage Phenomenon
      • Hollywood – Heroes or Hoods
      • West Side Story
    • The Rise of Rock & Roll in The Fifties
      • Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
      • Transition from Pop to Rock & Roll
      • Rock & Roll Stars and Personalities
      • Criticism of “The Devil’s Music” (Rock & Roll)
      • Doo Wops/Street Corner Harmony
      • White Cover Records
      • American Bandstand
    • Criticism of the Fifties’ Culture
      • Revolutionary Road
      • The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
      • The Lonely Crowd
      • The Organization Man
      • The Feminine Mystique
      • The Catcher in the Rye
      • Ayn Rand – “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”
    • The Beat Generation
    • Conclusion – The Day the Music Died
  • The Vietnam War
    • French Indochina after World War II
    • Early American Vietnamese Policy
    • The Kennedy Administration on Vietnam
    • President Johnson Expands the War
    • The Draft
    • The Soldier’s Experience in Vietnam
    • The My Lai Massacre
    • Agent Orange and Napalm
    • Hawks and Doves
    • The Tet Offensive and its Consequences
    • Nixon’s Plan for Peace
    • The Troops Come Home
  • Cultural Rebellion
    • Cultural Rebellion Introduction
    • The Flower Children/Hippies/LSD
    • Haight Ashbury
    • Communes
  • Woman’s Rights/The Feminist Movement
    • Women’s Liberation
    • The Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.)
    • The Sexual Revolution
    • Abortion and the Right to Choose
  • LGBT Civil Rights
    • Stonewall Inn Riots
    • HIV/AIDS – not just a “gay plague”
    • The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Menu
  • Preface
  • World War I
    • The Start of the War
    • The Western Front
    • The Christmas Truce of 1914
    • The Southern Front-Gallipoli
    • German Submarine Warfare
    • The United States Enters the War
    • Segregated Armed Forces
    • The End of the War
  • The Industrial Age, Immigration and Labor Wars
    • The Industrial Age
    • Ellis Island and Immigration
    • Xenophobia
    • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • The Rise of Labor Unions
    • Working Conditions in Mines and Mills
    • Famous Mine and Mill Strikes
    • Labor in the Textile Mills
    • The Lawrence Mill Strike
    • The Almanac Singers
    • Later-Day Labor Issues
  • The Roaring Twenties
    • Preface – The League of Nations
    • The Twenties Zeitgeist – Cultural Wars
    • The Arrival of the Flapper and Sheik
    • The Lost Generation
    • The “Algonquin Round Table”
    • The Harlem Renaissance
    • Ballyhoo, Fads, Fashions and Follies
    • Charles A. Lindbergh
    • The Scopes Trial
    • Religious Celebrities
    • Car Culture and Consumer Economy
    • Radio, Hollywood, and Art Deco
      • Radio
      • Art Deco
    • Reaction to all the Cultural Change
    • Prohibition
    • Speakeasies and Gangsterism
    • Jazz was the Sound of the Speakeasies
    • The Politics of Passivity
      • Warren G. Harding
      • Calvin Coolidge
    • “The Boom”
    • The Great Stock “Bubble”
    • SUMMARY
  • The Great Depression
    • The Great Economic Disaster
    • Homelessness and Hoovervilles
    • The Plight of the Farmer
    • The Dust Bowl
    • Hoboes
    • The Bonus Army
    • Dance Marathons
    • Hoover’s Failures
    • The Liberal Reaction
    • The Election of 1932
    • The New Deal
      • National Recovery Administration
      • Agricultural Adjustment Administration
      • Farm Security Administration
      • Civilian Conservation Corps
      • Civil Works Administration
      • Works Progress Administration
      • Public Works Administration
      • Tennessee Valley Authority
    • Social Security
    • Opposition to the New Deal
    • Prohibition and Gangsters
    • Pop Culture during the Great Depression
  • Race Relations
    • Introduction
    • The Jim Crow Experience
    • Lynchings
    • The Scottsboro Boys
    • Racial Equality Organizations
    • Segregation, Racial Hatred and Integration
    • The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
    • School Integration
    • The Lunch Counter Sit-ins
    • The Freedom Riders
    • James Meredith’s Attempt to Enroll
    • Desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama
    • The Killing of Medgar Evers
    • The March on Washington
    • Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
    • Freedom Summer
    • The Marches from Selma
    • Northern Urban Riots
    • Black Nationalism and Militancy
    • The Black Panther Party
    • The Assassination of Martin Luther King
  • World War II
    • Inter-war Isolationism
      • The World Marches toward Armageddon
      • The Rise of Italian Fascism
      • The Spanish Civil War
      • Japanese Expansion in the Pacific
    • The Start of World War Two
    • Lend-Lease
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Internment of Japanese-Americans
    • The War in the Atlantic
      • The Battle of Britain
      • Operation Barbarossa
      • Russian Campaign Summer 1942
      • The Battle of Stalingrad
      • The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
    • Mediterranean Campaign and Invasion of Italy
      • The Normandy Landings, D-Day
      • The Battle of the Bulge
    • The Holocaust
    • The Nuremberg Trials
    • The Pacific Theatre
      • The Pacific Theatre – Island hopping
      • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Home Front
      • War Time Production
      • Music and News on the Home Front
      • Entertaining the Troops
  • Post World War II
    • The Cold War
    • The Atomic Scare
    • The Berlin Airlift
    • The Korean “Police Action”
    • The Red Scare
      • The House Un-American Activities Committee
      • McCarthyism and Red Hunting
      • Blacklisting
    • Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Berlin
  • The Fifties
    • Introduction
    • Post-war Politics
      • The 1952 Presidential Election
      • The 1956 Presidential Election
      • The 1960 Presidential Election
    • Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex Speech
    • Suburbanization
    • The Stereotypical Family of the Fifties
    • Baby Boomers, The Consumption Society and Conformity
    • Downtown Gives Way to the Shopping Mall
    • Fifties Diners (Drive-ins)
    • Advent and Growth of Television
    • Television Shaped Family Life in The Fifties
      • Game Shows/Quiz Shows
      • Westerns
      • Kid Shows
      • Sit-Coms
      • Comedy and Variety Shows
      • Anthology Shows
      • 1950s Soap Operas
    • Religion on TV
      • Norman Vincent Peale
      • Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • Billy Graham – William Franklin Graham Jr.
    • Sports on TV in The Fifties
      • Major League Baseball during the 1950s
      • Professional Football in The Fifties
      • College Football during the Fifties
      • Boxing on TV in the Fifties
      • Other Sports on TV in The Fifties
        • NBA/NCAA Basketball
        • Hockey
    • Television of News, Current Events and Politics in the Fifties
    • Significant TV News Events of the Fifties
      • Kefauver Hearings (1950-51)
      • Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech
      • Edward R. Murrow-See It Now
      • McCarthy-Army Hearings
      • MacArthur’s Triumphant Return
      • Presidential Nominating Conventions
      • Presidential Press Conferences
      • Kennedy-Nixon debates
    • Criticism of 1950s Television
    • Polio and The Salk Vaccine
    • Social Criticism in The Fifties
      • The Affluent Society Demanded Conformity
      • Women’s Role in the 1950’s
      • The Fifties’ Teenage Phenomenon
      • Hollywood – Heroes or Hoods
      • West Side Story
    • The Rise of Rock & Roll in The Fifties
      • Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
      • Transition from Pop to Rock & Roll
      • Rock & Roll Stars and Personalities
      • Criticism of “The Devil’s Music” (Rock & Roll)
      • Doo Wops/Street Corner Harmony
      • White Cover Records
      • American Bandstand
    • Criticism of the Fifties’ Culture
      • Revolutionary Road
      • The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
      • The Lonely Crowd
      • The Organization Man
      • The Feminine Mystique
      • The Catcher in the Rye
      • Ayn Rand – “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”
    • The Beat Generation
    • Conclusion – The Day the Music Died
  • The Vietnam War
    • French Indochina after World War II
    • Early American Vietnamese Policy
    • The Kennedy Administration on Vietnam
    • President Johnson Expands the War
    • The Draft
    • The Soldier’s Experience in Vietnam
    • The My Lai Massacre
    • Agent Orange and Napalm
    • Hawks and Doves
    • The Tet Offensive and its Consequences
    • Nixon’s Plan for Peace
    • The Troops Come Home
  • Cultural Rebellion
    • Cultural Rebellion Introduction
    • The Flower Children/Hippies/LSD
    • Haight Ashbury
    • Communes
  • Woman’s Rights/The Feminist Movement
    • Women’s Liberation
    • The Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.)
    • The Sexual Revolution
    • Abortion and the Right to Choose
  • LGBT Civil Rights
    • Stonewall Inn Riots
    • HIV/AIDS – not just a “gay plague”
    • The AIDS Memorial Quilt
  • Post Vietnam
    • Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation
    • Nixon’s Resignation
    • The Watergate Legacy
    • America and the Middle East
      • The Arab Oil Embargo
      • The Camp David Accords
      • The Iranian Revolution
      • The Persian Gulf War
    • Reagan’s Central American Foreign Policy
    • Eastern Europeans against the Soviet Union
    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union
    • The Balkan Wars of the 1990s
    • Al Qaeda
  • 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • General Characteristics of the 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • Ronald Reagan and National Politics
      • The Presidential election of 1980
      • Reagan gets Four More Years
      • “Reaganomics”, “Supply Side Economics”
      • Economic Crises of the Reagan Years
      • The New Right
    • Social Problems during the 1980s
      • The War on Drugs
      • Economic Inequality and Homelessness
      • Race Relations during the Reagan Years
    • Technology in the 1980s
    • Summary of the Reagan Years
    • 1988 Presidential Election
    • Sources for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
    • Song Index for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Songs
  • Bibliography
  • Sources
  • Discography
  • Copyright Disclaimer
Menu
  • Post Vietnam
    • Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation
    • Nixon’s Resignation
    • The Watergate Legacy
    • America and the Middle East
      • The Arab Oil Embargo
      • The Camp David Accords
      • The Iranian Revolution
      • The Persian Gulf War
    • Reagan’s Central American Foreign Policy
    • Eastern Europeans against the Soviet Union
    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union
    • The Balkan Wars of the 1990s
    • Al Qaeda
  • 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • General Characteristics of the 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • Ronald Reagan and National Politics
      • The Presidential election of 1980
      • Reagan gets Four More Years
      • “Reaganomics”, “Supply Side Economics”
      • Economic Crises of the Reagan Years
      • The New Right
    • Social Problems during the 1980s
      • The War on Drugs
      • Economic Inequality and Homelessness
      • Race Relations during the Reagan Years
    • Technology in the 1980s
    • Summary of the Reagan Years
    • 1988 Presidential Election
    • Sources for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
    • Song Index for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Songs
  • Bibliography
  • Sources
  • Discography
  • Copyright Disclaimer

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