Martin Luther King Jr had never been assassinated? How would America and the world be different? He becomes the first black president winning over Reagan in 1980 election?
Martin Luther King Jr had never been assassinated? How would America and the world be different? He becomes the first black president winning over Reagan in 1980 election?
Interesting question. Honestly if MLK hadn't been assassinated, he might have eventually come under the mercy of J Edgar Hoover. The FBI did not only have recorded tapes of Dr King womanizing with members of his movement, but also recorded meeting with known communist sympathizers. Eventually MLK could have been severely discredited, threatening the legitimacy and purity of the civil rights movement.
Interesting question. Honestly if MLK hadn't been assassinated, he might have eventually come under the mercy of J Edgar Hoover. The FBI did not only have recorded tapes of Dr King womanizing with members of his movement, but also recorded meeting with known communist sympathizers. Eventually MLK could have been severely discredited, threatening the legitimacy and purity of the civil rights movement.
This. He would never be President for this reason. Further, he was becoming more vocally anti-vietnam and pro-socialist. So, he would be remembered less and elss as a pure civil rights figure and more of a political ideologue, especially if he lived past the mid 70s.
The 60s was a generation that needed heroes. Dead political figures and musicians became those heroes. If Janis Joplin, RFK, Jimi Hendrix, and MLK lived on, they would not quite be as legendary.
You can pretty much forget about the MLK Mt Rushmore that was built.
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