Comparison of The World War's Causes
...Negroes in the Audubon Ballroom at 166th street and Broadway. Some witnesses said more then thirty shots were fired. The police said seven bullets had struck Malcolm, three other Negroes were shot. Hagan was shot in the left thigh and his left leg was broke, apparently by kicks. He was under treatment in the Bellevue Hospital prison ward last night. Martin Luther King shot dead The American black civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, has been assassinated. King was shot on April 4, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot by a man named Earl Ray. The police arrested Ray an hour later. King was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital approximately one hour later. Although no television cameras were in the vicinity coverage of the event quickly followed. Reverent Jesse Jackson was on the balcony with Dr. King when the shot rang out. “ He had just bent over. I reckon if he had been standing up he would not have been hit in the face,” said Mr. Jackson. Affirmative Action Activists in the mid-1960s would find it much more difficult to convince whites to share economic and social power with African Americans than to convince them to share lunch counters and bus seats. Affirmative ...