Rewind
1968
Newsweek reported that tragedy struck: “a white assassin shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.” The country was shocked and responded with a national period of mourning and with outrage that led to riots and with the expedited passing of the Fair Housing Act, considered to be the last Civil Rights-era legislation. Newsweek said of Dr. King, “He was, more than any single man, the voice and the instrument of the second American revolution.” Dr. King would be 91 years old, if he were alive today.