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Time Stopped When Martin Luther King Jr. Was Slain. But The Lorraine At Last Moved Ahead.

The thriving black-owned Memphis motel where King was assassinated initially couldn't recover from that 1968 tragedy. Today it is a civil rights museum.
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Man Who Arrested MLK's Killer Thinks Racial Tensions Have Worsened Since Then

HuffPost was in Memphis, for our “Listen To America” bus tour. We spoke to former Sheriff Bill Morris, who arrested Martin Luther King’s assassin in 1968. He told us that there is "more stress" between law enforcement and the African-American community today than there was the 1960s.
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