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How did the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr affect the civil rights movement?

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Reactions in Durham ranged from violent to peaceful after civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. ... But peace was not to last.
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Martin Luther’s King JRs death encouraged the black power movement support and riots to further.

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