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MelloDawg said:

I’m going to need Race to chime in on if there was any international effect after the MLK assassination. I mean, I know there’s been solidarity marches around the world presently after the Floyd murder and resulting unrest in the states. I could probably pull up several videos.

I’m sure it was the same way 45 years ago with exponentially fewer ways to broadcast the news and cover the story.

I knew this was coming

https://historyextra.com/period/20th-century/the-global-legacy-of-martin-luther-king/


Reactions to his death varied across the globe at the time, and have fluctuated considerably across the half century since – a period of huge and widespread change.

As news of the murder spread, African-American rage erupted in violence in more than 100 cities. Between 4 and 9 April, at least 36 people were killed in these clashes, including 11 in America’s capital. Under-Secretary of Labor James J Reynolds flew from Washington DC to Memphis, with presidential orders to secure a rapid settlement of the sanitation workers’ strike King had been supporting. He later recalled how, looking down on blazing buildings close to Capitol Hill, he thought: it looks like a war zone.

The shock of the assassination reverberated far beyond America’s borders. Pope Paul VI expressed his profound sadness. In a rare tribute to a foreign citizen, the Indian parliament observed a minute’s silence. Across western Europe, the death was linked to the earlier murder of President John F Kennedy in 1963; to those nations, the assassination seemed to underscore America’s general instability.

In Berlin, thousands of mourners marched behind West Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Schutz, to a ceremony in John F Kennedy Platz, renamed three days after JFK’s own assassination. In Germany and elsewhere, King’s murder was viewed in the context of his outspoken opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. During the last year of his life, King had been a leading figure in the anti-war campaign. A Nobel Peace-prize winner, he had even considered going as an emissary to North Vietnam, where his presence might deter the bombing of civilian targets. The scale of protests in Europe’s capitals against US actions demonstrated how King was embraced as a martyr for peace.

International condemnation
Predictably, occurring as it did during the Cold War, the assassination was cited as evidence that, in the words of a headline in Soviet newspaper Isvestia, “United States is a Nation of Violence and Racism”. In East Germany, the government newspaper likened King’s death explicitly to the death of another pacifist Nobel Laureate, Carl von Ossietzky , in 1938 after abuse by the Nazis. In Africa, decolonised nations joined the chorus of anti-American sentiment.

In Ghana, the Accra Daily Graphic denounced America’s so-called “affluent society” as in reality “a fraudulent society – a human jungle wherein the black man is a target for destruction, even extermination”. King had been scheduled to visit war-torn Nigeria later in April, and its officials declared that his murder would “have meaning only if US Negroes achieve equality and human dignity in the shortest possible time and without resorting to a bloody struggle”.

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