James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, was born on this day in 1928. Ironically, this date also marks the anniversary of the death of Civil Rights hero Harriet Tubman. Marcus compares their lives and how Ray’s efforts to combat civil rights ultimately drove the movement to even greater heights.

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