Forgive me if this was brought up before. I searched, couldn't find it.
Saw this on Mental Floss today:
In 1958, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was signing copies of his book,
Stride Toward Freedom, in the shoe section of a Harlem department store when a woman approached. After she confirmed the man was indeed King, she produced an eight-inch letter opener and
plunged it into his chest. Surgery saved King’s life, though
doctors feared that if he had so much as sneezed, he might have died—the weapon's edge had settled on his aorta. While in the hospital, he
told a reporter that his attacker, Izola Curry, was in need of mental help. “I’m not angry at her,” he added. Curry was committed to mental and assisted living institutions before her death in 2015.
WI Curry was successful? What is the impact to the Civil Rights movement, race relations and politics? What else changes?