Although she never heard about him before his death, after my grandmother began to admire Dr. King and what he stood for. Near that same time, she read books on the Civil War and slavery, and she realized that freeing the slaves didn't stop the government from depriving African Americans of their rights. She realized that they still had a long way to go until everyone recognized racial equality. After Dr. King's death, she noticed that the racial tension grew even more. She told me that she remembered that a few weeks after his death, she went to the store and saw one of her friends from sixth grade, who was black. She remembers running up to her old friend and saying hello and asked her how she was, and that she only looked back frightened. As she was wondering what was wrong, the girl's mother came over, called her daughter away, and just frowned at my grandmother. She still remembers the sadness she felt.
That is what my grandmother told me me in the interview, and later, even though people were upset, they eventually realized the good Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to do. He was a great man, and it was a terrible thing that someone would do something like that to such a great man. We are still trying to live up his dreams today.