... and 1967, Martin turned his focus of his civil rights activism to economic issues. He argued for redistribution of the country's money to help out the enormous black poverty. In 1967 he designed a "Poor People's Campaign" to address economic justice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was in Memphis, Tennessee to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against ... intolerable working conditions and better wages. He was shot by a sniper while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The name of the sniper was Earl Ray. His sentence was to ...

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