Police were everywhere, swarming the streets all over Memphis looking for one man, guns cocked and ready to shoot, paramedics trying to save King, and citizens running rampant in anger and fear. That's how the streets of Memphis downtown looked according to Carolyn B., former employee at the BHS Custom tailors. She lived in South Memphis in the 60s when Elvis' music was thriving as he recorded at Stax Records and Recording Studio and girls wore long skirts with tennis shoes to neighborhood schools. Her husband, Earl B., was stationed at the Millington Military Base at the time. Every week day morning Carolyn, at 25 years old, would drive her car to her job as Secretary and Book keeper for BHS Custom Tailors, a small black business on 248 Vans Avenue, two blocks away from Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot. King had just recently made his Mountain Top speech, the last one he ever made, at the Mason Temple Church. On April 4th, 1968, which was a Thursday, Carolyn hopped in her car and drove to the Tailor's shop to sit at her desk in the front of the small building. While handling paperwork she listened to the radio and that is when they announced that King was shot. Immediately after she heard this her boss said that they were closing for the rest of the day and until further notice. As she was walking out of the building towards her car her ears were filled with the sounds of sirens and yelling. Everywhere policemen were infiltrating the streets, tanks rolled along the roads, and the military were alerted so the National Guard was involved too. They were all surrounding the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street where the shot was fired. Carolyn sped to her house and quickly turned on the television that was broadcasting nothing but King's death. Conspiracies were made such as, the sanitation crew who were at the fire station across from the Lorraine Motel at the time of his death or Martin's body guards delivering the fatal shot. The most suspicion surrounded a man named James Earl Ray who, after supposedly killing King, went to a service station, where the FedEx Forum is now, at the corner of Third and Linden where he made a phone call. Linden street was later named after Martin Luther King. The rest of the night was full of fear, sadness, and anger. Black people and some white people were angered by King's death, setting Bill Street on fire. They decided to originate the fire from the place where Martin made his last speech, the Mason Church. It was a quiet night for Memphis due to the curfews that had been enforced for everyone's safety. Carolyn highly respected King for his peaceful movements and strong acts in trying to accomplish equality for all races, not just African-American before he was killed. When asked how she felt about King after he died she said, "I respect him even more," as did many. Everyday life after his death changed for Carolyn, tensions rose, suspicion hung in the air, and riots, beginning in Memphis, spread through out the United States. Eventually Carolyn's job closed down due to personal threats and the proximity to the crime scene. Carolyn later went to live with her husband at the military base as a dependent, meaning she couldn't participate in civil movements, but that didn't stop her friends from marching in the Civil Rights march. As time went by and the citizens of Memphis calmed, respect for black people grew and impacted her life from then on. Although life wasn't perfect, Carolyn's rights as a black woman improved when the Civil Rights Act of 1968 provided equal housing for everyone, regardless of race, creed, or nationality, allowing her to move to Whitehaven. Years later Memphis citizens began opening their arms to different types of people, not only black people, boosting the moral of everyone.