What you need to know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Over a half-century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support and bring attention to a strike by more than 1,300 city sanitation workers, but the journey to Tennessee would cost him his life. Fifty-one years have passed since one of the nation’s most harrowing episodes unfolded, …

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