US then and now: Reflecting on 50 years since MLK’s assassination
Martin Luther King’s assassination was one of many events that defined 1968 as a year of political, social and emotional chaos, but what has United States learned 50 years on?
Half a century ago this week, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in the US city of Memphis.
His death was one of many events that defined 1968 as a year of political, social and emotional chaos.
Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan looks at what shaped that year and the parallels with modern day United States.
Published On 1 Apr 2018