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5 decades after MLK assassination, a lingering pain, a lasting legacy
Local leaders, activists reflect on 50th anniversary of death of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is seen in this undated file photo. Martin Luther King Jr., leader in the civil rights movement was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis. (AP Photo) - photo by Associated Press
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the icon of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. King was shot and killed April 4, 1968, outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, by segregationist James Earl Ray.