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Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King's death

  • Written by Sharon Austin, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of African American Studies, University of Florida
How much has really improved for black people in the U.S. since 1968?Ted Eytan, CC BY-SA

On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers.

That was almost 50 years ago. Back then, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning...

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