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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/martin-luther-king-police-brutality/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 11/1/22] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/martin-luther-king-police-brutality/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 11/1/22] | ||
On January 10, the Zinn Education Project hosted historian Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that is not found in textbooks and school curricula. This was for the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series of classes with people’s historians. | On January 10, the Zinn Education Project hosted historian Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that is not found in textbooks and school curricula. This was for the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series of classes with people’s historians. | ||
=====Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-assassination-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ by Dr. Martin Luther King 4/4/18 EJI] | |||
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he’d come to support Black sanitation workers striking for job safety and better wages. Dr. King led an earlier march that ended in looting and violence, but after talking with local activists, he returned for another march scheduled for April 5. | |||
