He was shot on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
White supremacists orchestrated bombings, beatings and murders to maintain the status quo, and King eventually became one of the victims.
Despite King's steadfast commitment to nonviolence, his opponents, mostly Southern whites opposed to desegregation and enfranchisement for African-Americans, weren't so restrained. was the superstar of the civil rights movement and, like Gandhi, relied on nonviolence and civil disobedience to push for desegregation, voting rights and other civil rights for African Americans. Millions of people came to honor the leader in his funeral procession. 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist who opposed Gandhi's nonviolent approach and perceived favoritism towards Muslims, fired three shots at the leader at the Birla House in New Delhi, killing him. Instead of relying on a revolution, Gandhi used nonviolence to accomplish this feat. or "Mahatma" Gandhi led India's successful bid for independence from Great Britain from the 1920s to the 1940s. Booth then leapt onto the stage wielding a knife and said, "Sic semper tyrannis," or "thus always to tyrants," a famous line attributed to Brutus at Caesar's assassination. The president was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when actor John Wilkes Booth slipped into the president's booth and shot him in the head on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. He had ended slavery, preserved the Union through the Civil War, and was embarking on the long road to reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln, hailed by many historians as America's greatest president, was at a high point in 1865 when he was murdered.
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