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King was killed due to his success in manufacturing the framework for the first successful Civil Rights Movement in America. As history shows, the world has come a long way (in some parts) in protecting rights and becoming more progressive as far as peoples' rights. For every progressive civil right leader, there is an anti-progressive reactionary who wants nothing more than to regress to the racist era of before. One man, James Earl Ray, felt compelled to such a degree that the only way to stop these rights for African-Americans, was the assassinate Dr. King. He was killed out of the anger, frustration, and envy of anti-progressive whites.

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