Martin Luther King, Jr. was the president of the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The SCLC was a nonviolent group working to earn civil rights for African-Americans. King was assassinated in 1963 in Memphis, Tennessee while making a speech.
Medgar Evers was killed in the Birmingham bombings of 1963.
I believe President Lyndon Johnson was the President when Martin Luther King was gunned down dead on theBalcony of Lorraine Motel in Missisipi.
Evers
He was killed April of 1968 not 69 and LBJ was president.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is an example of a slain civil rights leader. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Medgar Evers is another example.
Martin Luther King Jr
I believe President Lyndon Johnson was the President when Martin Luther King was gunned down dead on theBalcony of Lorraine Motel in Missisipi.
Harry T. Moore
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr. is an example of a slain civil rights leader. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Medgar Evers is another example.
Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was slain by members of the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The effort to bring his murderers to trial is depicted in the film 'Ghosts of Mississippi.'
it is eulogizing the slain civil rights leader an bears the seal of the commonwealth of Massachusetts
It was just Martin Luther. Martin Luther King Jr was a black civil rights leader who was slain in Memphis, TN.
Vernon Dahmer was a Mississippi businessman and civil rights activist who was slain by Ku Klux Kan in 1966, apparently for his aid and advocacy in registering black voters.
Robert Kennedy. Brother of slain president John F. Kennedy.