54 Years Ago Today, Dr. King was Assassinated

April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by the U.S. government. Two years before his assassination, Dr. King had transitioned from being a peace-loving, Southern Negro preacher, to being a militant Black man who spoke out against the government's treatment of Blacks in urban America, as well as America's involvement in Vietnam. The U.S. government not because he was marching for Blacks to socially integrate with Whites, but because he was a powerful Black revolutionary.