What do you think would have happened in the civil rights movement had King not been assassinated?
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Well the civil rights movement would have never happened. Blacks would still be segregated. ... After arrest, blacks are mostly detained until trial in New York, while whites aren't Jaafar Beydoun, a student at Unis Middle School, said that the U.S would be widely segregated
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WHAT IF, INSTEAD of going to Memphis in April 1968 to lead yet another march, Martin Luther King had returned home, exhausted, to Atlanta? What if he had then avoided all his other would-be assassins and lived to old age well into the 21st century? (He would have been 89 this year.)
Though it is often a mistake to attribute too much power to shape history to a single person, King’s death was the spur for improvements in civil rights and race relations that might not otherwise have occurred. Had he made it through 1968 alive, however, he would have ended the 1960s as a controversial, divisive figure for many white Americans. A Gallup poll in 1966 found that only 32% of Americans had a positive view of King. In a Gallup survey in 1967 to identify the ten most-admired Americans, George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, made the list. King did not