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Royal Exchange Theatre
Manchester
ON April 3 1968 Martin Luther King Jnr (MLK) addressed a rally in support of black sanitation workers on strike in Memphis.
The rally was part of a nationwide tour in support of the “Poor People’s Campaign.” The multi-racial campaign was established to fight for economic and social justice across the States.
Recognising that black civil rights was impossible under the political and economic system in the US, MLK broadened his campaign to include support for the anti-Vietnam war movement and to argue for socialism. The following night while standing on the balcony outside room 306 of the Lorraine Motel he was shot dead.
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