For this project, I interviewed Mrs. Howarth, my grandma. She was 24 at the time of the assassination. This is how it happened. Memphis was a great place to live in the 1960's. It was very clean. Downtown was really nice. A normal day for her would go like this. She would wake up and go to work for Dr. Dirmeyer. She loved her job. On the weekends, she would either go to Shelby Farms or the river. Then, she would go home.
On the day of the assassination, she was on the way to get her hair cut when she heard the news. She was very shocked. The people around her were shocked as well. People started burning buildings and throwing rocks at windows. It was a very scary place to be. That night, there was an early curfew. She didn't make it home on time because her hair place was across town. When she got home she just turned on the news and watched it.
She thought the same of Martin Luther King Jr. before and after his death. She thought that he meant well in what he was doing, but he went about it doing the wrong way. Her life didn't change at all after King's death. Some people around her had negative attitudes, but that was all. This is how my grandma viewed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.