In an article called "The Last Year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life, According to The Times, posted on The New York Times, it talks about Martin Luther King Jr and how he emerged into an icon and how he led a movement that protests are now "shorthand" for their period in time. During the last year of his life, he faced many struggles. He faced many conflict from various factors thrusting for racial justice. He also witnessed support for segregation and violence from people who were against civil rights. The Civil Rights Movement included many people who toiled many organizations that arranged King's Leadership Conference. When King gave his final speech located in Memphis in 1968, he was trying to reproduce unity. A year before King died, he gave a speech on the Vietnam War where he talked about a nation for sending black men miles away to guarantee liberty. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave a unanimous vote where they went against King's proposal to give a proclamation affiliating civil rights and peace movements. It was mentioned that the two had little in common by Ralph J Bunche. He stated that King should lose one role and focus on the other.
In Chicago, after a rally in March 1967, local black ministers stated that Dr. King failed and created hate when marches occurred in the summer previously and people from the outside communities should remain in Alabama. Roy Wilkins who was the executive director of N.A.A.C.P stated that King saying that American cities were transforming into powder kegs that were ready to burst in racial violence was a dangerous thing to say.
When the Civil Rights Mocement was four years old, King grew his itinerary to poverty. He would fight for blacks who were at the lowest economic ladder. He started planning a march that would include 3,000 activists. He met with a minority group organization in order to greater his campaign fro the movement but there was a halt to the cause because a stop to Dr. King in Memphis. When Dr. King was in Memphis supporting a march against black sanitation workers, he was assassinated.
In another article involving race and claims of racial biases, an article from ABC News called "A Look at Claims of Racial Bias in US restaurants talks about how there are many food industires still being biased and hateful towards people of different races. On restaurant that has been the latest US food chain to teat black people badly is Starbucks. In 1994, 54 million dollars were paid in a landmark settlement betweem 1700 Denny's for racial discrimination claims. There were thousands of clamins from blacks that they were refused services, made wait longer than whites and charged more than they were supposed to be charged. This was the largest settlement under federal laws. Incidents like this continue to happen today even though they had agreed to treat all customers equally. Just last year in Washington, black young men were demanded to wait longer and asked to prepay for their food which caused the company to have to apologize and workers were fired.
At a place called Cracker Barrel, they paid 9 million dollars in 2004 to allegations from mistreating black customers and discriminating against workers of color. There were 16 stated with 40 plaintiffs that were not served and even made sit in separate seating areas, threw racial slurs and served people from the trash. Black workers also complained to be segregated from the others and forced to work in the back of the house. Just last month, another restaurant named iHop, gave apologies after a waitress there asked black teenagers to pay before getting a meal.
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/claims-racial-bias-us-restaurants-54483984
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