On March 28, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a protest march on Main Street in Memphis Tennessee when all hell broke loose. He had come to Memphis to help the garbage collection employees of the city of Memphis in their strike for better wages and safer working conditions. Garbage collectors had been seriously hurt and some killed due to the lack of training and dangerous trucks they worked on. They were paid meagerly by the city and most of them were black. Martin Luther King Jr. was asked to come and help them and he did. Few people realized that the danger wasn't just for the garbage workers but within a week of this day that started out as a march and ended up in rioting and mayhem King himself would be shot down and killed in Memphis. Now April 4, 1968 lives in infamy but the day that really set the framework for the coming tragedy was this day, March 28, 1968, when gunshots began ringing out in Memphis in the mid-morning and continued until late in the evening.
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