Honoring Dr. King's Legacy: The Lasting Influence of His April 1968 Assassination

“What would Martin do?” reflected Mary Francis Berry, ex-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was sadly assassinated on the Lorraine Motel balcony in Memphis, championing striking African-American sanitation workers and the Poor People’s Campaign.