This country has seen the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, the 1968 riots after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the 1992 Rodney King riots and countless others.
In This Story: Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.