(Charlie Kelly | AP file photo) In this March 29, 1968, photo, striking sanitation workers march past Tennessee National Guard troops with bayonets during a 20-block march to City Hall, one day after a similar march erupted in violence, leaving one person dead and several injured, in Memphis, Tenn. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers.
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