During this time Anne S. was surrounded by racism because during this time white people and black people did not get along at all. Martin Luther King Jr. was a light in a dark tunnel throughout the point of racism in 1968. Anne lived on a farm and was in her senior year high school and the night that MLK was assassinated it changed racism forever. Many people liked what MLK was doing but others weren't so appreciative and one of those people killed him. Racism began to decrease after MLK was killed because he made such a difference that even when he was dead things began to change. This began to change Anne's life because school began to integrate more than they used to. White and Black people started living in society in a peaceful way even though there were still those racist minds out there. MLKs assassination changed Anne's life and it is something she still remembered to this day even though she was just in high school then which was so long ago. Even a simple farm girl that lives in the country can still be affected by something as big as this even though it wasn't that close to her.