2007-04-29 15:15:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
He was speaking about Civil Rights in Memphis. A white man stood in a bahtub in a buiding across from him and shot him dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. He was in Memphis because the sanitation workers were not given any benefits because they were primarily black
2007-04-29 15:23:49 · answer #1 · answered by teachingtaylor83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
April 4, 1968
2007-04-29 15:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by wbaker777 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He said things that people did not want to hear. Especially giving more rights to minorities, of which made many people afraid. Change is bad, was their attitude.
He would be HORRIFIED today to see how his work has turned out.
2007-04-29 15:19:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is right many white people were against him and obviously one so much that he murdered him he was a great man and we should not forget him the man who killed him was a nasty horrible racist.
2007-04-29 15:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was a lawbreaker, a communist sympathiser, a womanizer, and a plagiarist.
2007-04-29 15:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of unfounded hate.
2007-04-29 15:26:10 · answer #6 · answered by Robert L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was for civil rights, which ment many whites were against him fighting for black rights.
2007-04-29 15:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by jimmie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋