In the time spanning March of 1968-April 4, 1968 Memphis Tennessee was going through one of the most critical changes during the civil Rights movement and The Commercial Appeal was there to follow all of its news.
Memphis could be looked upon as a battlefield for civil rights movement. In March of 1968 Sanitation workers went on strike because of unfair wages and few rights. For weeks they demonstrated and much violence occurred. When Martin Luther King arrived in Late March he began to spread the word of peaceful protesting. A week after getting to Memphis Martin Luther King had been Killed while standing outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. From here the Media world was thrust full on into a tornado of news from who it was to how it happened. The Commercial Appeal was able to keep a neutral standpoint and report the news to its community on a basis in which readers might sway their old fashioned views.
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