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Crime & Justice
The Black Lives Matter Deaths That Preceded Dr. King’s
EQUALITY
All but lost to history is the reason Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis on April 4, 1968. It’s the same issue 50 years later: the right to equal treatment for all Americans.
Joy-Ann Reid
Published
Apr. 4 2018
7:14AM EDT
opinion
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