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MLK was almost assassinated by (ironically) a deranged black women by the name of Izola Curry. She stabbed him with a letter opener at a New York City book signing in 1958. MLK was transferred to a hospital and underwent a risky operation.
The razor tip of the letter opener had been touching his aorta and that his whole chest had to be opened to extract it.
''If you had sneezed during all those hours of waiting,' Dr. Maynard said, 'your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.''
So, what if MLK sneezed and died on the operation table? How would the civil rights movement have evolved without King's influence? How great would his legacy be today, had he died after the Montgomery Bus Boycots, but before his election to the SCLC, Freedom Rides, the Washington/Birmingham marches, the Nobel Prize, etc.?