Charlotte B. was a twenty three year old white woman in 1968. She lived at 875 Barbra Drive in the Hyde Park area of Memphis with her two girls under the age of 4. Her husband traveled often because he was the drum player for the band The Boxtops. Her neighborhood had an even mix of whites and blacks. Ms. B. always thought her black next-door neighbors were the nicest people. When She thinks back to Memphis in the 1960’s, the main thing that sticks out to her is how safe it was. Ms. B. never felt unsafe in her neighborhood. People could be trusted and you were friends with your neighbors, who were for the most part kind and constantly looking out for you. A typical day for Ms. B. in 1968 mostly consisted of taking care of her girls. Fresh milk would arrive every morning on her porch. She had to go to the laundry mat or “Washerteria” as Ms. B. calls it, to do laundry and then hang the items up outside to dry. Her girls used cloth diapers, so those had to be washed frequently. She also worked part time for her fathers printing business and did binary work at home, licking envelopes, and tagging things. Ms. B. also remembers that she would take the girls for a walk in the neighborhood everyday and usually played outside. She thinks that life now compared to back then is very different. Back in 1968, a family could get by with one income, which is difficult to do now. Ms. B. believes that people are more cautious and aware of their surroundings today because they have to be. She doesn’t remember much about April 4, 1968 except for a call from her father in law. Her husband was out of town and her father in law was worried because Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination had been on the news. He was a racist man and wanted to come pick up Ms. B. and her children, because he was afraid of what would happen in her neighborhood of mixed races. She refused and drove to her parent’s the next day. Her parent’s home was at 2225 South Parkway East, on the edge on Orange Mound and Cooper Young areas. Ms. B. doesn’t remember how long she stayed there and remembers her parents being afraid that there would be rioting all over the city, but she never encountered any riots. Ms. B. knew very little about Martin Luther King Jr. until he came to help the sanitation workers in Memphis and she was glad she came to help. After his death she thought: “What a shame that such a great, promising leader had been wiped out by some ignorant white boy. It was a huge loss to a peaceful movement and the hopes of millions of people.” Ms. B. remembers their being a heavy increase in police in the weeks after the assassination in case of an uprising. She additionally recalls a shift in the attitude of white people towards black people. She thinks white people were fearful and apathetic towards them because they feared for their own safety. This still saddens Ms. B. All people were also pretty horrified that such an important man could be murdered like that.