Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:Friendly reminder it was only after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and the country broke out into immense riots and protests that the 1968 Civil Rights Act was passed. MLK Jr. was another black man whose killing triggered mass protests and the passage of historic civil rights legislation.
And also triggered massive backlash, the civil rights movement falling apart, the election of Nixon, city cores reduced to crime ridden burnt out ruins and such...