In 1968, the year Dr. Martin Luther King got shot, my grandmother, Frankie W. was only 13 years old. She was living in Stovall, Mississippi on a farm at the time. She says it was a small country and not a lot of prejudice people or much racism at the time. A typical day for her in 1968 was waking up to go to school, come home, do homework, and eat and go to bed. She says it's much different from today because we have slot of resources and technology today that she didn't have back then. She was used to planting and growing her own food to eat, washed clothes clothes with pump water, picked Cotten, and raised animals. On the day Dr. King was assassinated, my grandmother remember being at home shocked and upset about hearing that he had been shot. She was upset because she didn't want something like that to happen to such a great civil rights leader. The ones around her were upset and talking about it the rest of the night. She remembers staying woke the whole night and thinking about his killing. After the night King was shot, the people in her country was hurt and she remembers there being slot of talk about his killing and death. Before Dr. King was assassinated my grandmother thought of him as great man with lots of courage whom she had a lot of respect for and saw him as a man who stood out from other. Now, she still see Dr. King as a strong black leader who accomplished a lot of rights for the blacks and stressed the importance of equality. After his death, my grandmother saw some attitudes change in some of the people, but she didn't see much change at the age of 13 nor did she think people's viewpoints changed much, but only weeping because of the death of a strong man. Something she really appreciated about Dr. King was the beliefs he believed and how he stood up for what's right. She especially liked his belief in non-violence and she carried that on throughout her life as she grew up and tried her best not to stray down a path of violence. She also was captured by his belief that all humans were created equally in-spite of color or race and till this day, she loves to help and serve all kinds of people because she know that's the work God has called her to do.