MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION

When you ask anybody where they were, if they were alive during the Civil Rights Movement,he or she can probably tell u where they were when they heard the news that Martin Luther King had been assassinated.Martin Luther King had been a great Civil Rights leader. He had inspired many people with his "I Have A Dream" speech in his March on Washington in 1963. 

March 29,1968 in an attempt to help support black sanitary public workers in there march for higher wages and better treatment, MLK traveled to Memphis,Tennessee. King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, in Memphisand on April 4, 1968, as King stood on the motel's second floor balcony having a conversation with a friend of his about a Ben Branch concert,and no sooner than that he was fatily shot in the side of his neck and later announced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital , 7:05 p.m. Martin was a great clergyman, and an even better civil rights leader who impacted nearly every African American in many different ways and his death brought sorrow and tragedy to the lives of many.

I interviewed my grandmother about her feelings toward the assassination of Martin Luther King and that is what I will be discussing in this paragraph. When I asked her where was she when she heard the news she stated "I was in the living room with your mom and your auntie and they said on the radio that Martin Luther King had been shot. They didn't say that he had died untill much later." How did that make you feel granny I asked. "It hurt my heart just to hear that anyone would do something to such a great man and I cried more than ever,though he had died,what he fought for still stands today." From what I know the death of Martin Luther King brought chaos all over the nation, it was as if every thing he had been fighting for had just been completely ignored. The time people had spent fighting who they thought was the enemy, could have been time well spent on acknowledging his death and continuing his dream.

Talking to my grandmother was different than reading a book or watching a movie because it just felt real to me. It was much better than me reading about what someone else "believes" happend back then or watching someone say what they think u want to hear. Even though I was talking to her on the phone I could hear the passion in her voice and un like the books and the movies it was believable