Five days after the Civil War ended.
Medgar Evers was assassinated five years before Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln is considered to be a great leader. He was president during the Civil War and helped to end slavery in the United States.
Garfield was assassinated by a man who wanted to be appointed to a government job and blamed Garfield for not getting it. Garfield thus became a martyr, in a way. Since Garfield favored a reform in the way that civil service jobs were filled, you can say that he was a martyr for civil service.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was the leader of the Civil Rights movement.
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Jan 17 he was a great civil rights leader. He was assassinated in Memphis
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at Memphis Tennessee. He was a driving force during the Civil Rights Movement.
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Martin Luther King was a famous civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 while on the balcony of a hotel in Tennessee.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Not everyone agreed with King's work for the civil rights movement, and the man who preached non-violence was killed.
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4th 1968 at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot in the neck while he stook on the balcony of his hotel room and he died in hospital shortly afterward.
Martin Luther King Kr. was a clergyman, activist and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 25, 1929. MLK was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
He was always an American civil rights leader...if that's what your question is?