The Curiosity Chronicles

1968 Year of Tumult: Part Four(A)-MLK, Civil Rights, and a Racist Assassin


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Martin Luther King Jr. was a titan of the Civil Rights Movement.  Throughout the late 50s and most of the 60s he was influentially and personally involved with many different protests and movements to advance the status of Black Americans.  In this episode we explore some of those movements and how it all came crashing down in 1968!



Sources:

https://www.biography.com/political-figure/robert-kennedy

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-F-Kennedy

https://www.biography.com/activist/martin-luther-king-jr

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination

https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr/The-Mountaintop-Speech

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/martin-luther-king-jrs-assassination-sparked-uprisings-cities-across-america-180968665/

https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides

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The Curiosity ChroniclesBy Brett Bylsma

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