While in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers in that city, the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while he was standing on the balcony outside his room at a Memphis motel.
MLK Assassinated

While in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers in that city, the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while he was standing on the balcony outside his room at a Memphis motel.