Hi, my name is Mr. Stanley and I'm going to tell you about my life in the 1960's. I lived in south Memphis. I liked living in my neighborhood because there was no segregation and everyone in the neighborhood knew each other. Life was great in the late 1960's because you would have everything you wanted. Waking up in the morning with a roof and shoes on our feet was all we really needed. A regular normal day for me back then was waking up in the mornings and getting ready for school. Because we lived in South Memphis, we had to ride the city bus to our school in North Memphis. The majority of teens did not have jobs because we didn't really have responsibility as kids. Our parents would take care of us because jobs were plentiful and provided well amounts of money to support them and their family. The difference between the 60's and now are very different. Almost the complete opposite and what life is like today. Children would go outside and okay with each other because it was safer than what it is now. I was at school when I heard the news about Martin Luther King's death. Spiritually, it was a dark and gloomy day for me and everyone around me. I felt that I had lost an important figure in my life. When night came, some people cried and some acted out violently. They started fires and even busted out shop windows. They just took their anger out on all the property all over the city. The night after king was shot, the same thing was happening as the previous night. Much violence in the air. People were still hurt. I thought of Martin Luther King Jr. as a positive influence on everybody. He was a good man to follow; I never knew of anything bad about him. After he died I felt that the black community no longer had a leader. Good opportunities for the us left when he left. Martin Luther King Jr. had great motives for everyone, but after he died, those motives were gone and the changes were never accomplished. This is my story on Martin Luther King Jr.