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MEMPHIS, US, 1968
On 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was shot down on the balcony of his Memphis motel. The day before his funeral, thousands took to the streets in honour of the civil rights leader and in support of the striking sanitation workers that had brought King to the Tennessee city. Despite calls for his tireless commitment to non-violence to be upheld, riots broke out in cities all over the US after King’s assassination.