I lived in Memphis it was a very different time than from today in Technology. Memphis like most other cities went from a quiet clean city into a very low dissension including sanitation workers and Vietnam conflicts with the bell just portions of the problems along with many young man that left for Canada so they would not have to go to war in Vietnam caused a large uproar within the city.them with the sanitation worker conflict and their wages Martin Luther King came in to help but it ended up doing the opposite of helping and created a lot more problems and after the assassination Memphis became a war zone for that night next week after and it slowly descended into what it is today. A typical day for us on the fire department being as I was a firefighter during this time was to prepare for an emergency. I was a fire department Company later. In the mornings I would think what we we face today?, The Miriam I was responsible for and the cityfolk we may help if the need arises. I liked having that responsibility it made me feel very good about myself it was my job to protect life and property.Right after Martin Luther King was shot the city became a war zone there was looting and burning things. When he got shot I was on the corner of second Street and Jefferson. We were on something called " on alert" which generally for any other job is on call and the word came through what " he's been shot" and all the Melees and all hell broke loose when he was pronounced dead, the people literally went wild.there were fire set all throughout the night and all through the city and we had to have police protection at the station and at the fires because there were people shooting at us the trucks and everything else around us.My night during the MLK assassination was pretty eventful I was fighting fires wondering what was going to happen next. The city was in turmoil in a matter of 24 hours and continuing. There were people shooting and stealing and setting fires all throughout the city and it had no end in sight. And all the attention brought in the National Guard and even one National Guard member was nervous because he didn't want to have to engage with civilians to shoot at them in case they were coming at him. What I thought of MLK before he was assassinated is that he had good motives because African-Americans were being treated extremely poorly, he had the right idea. After he was shot I wonder why he came here even if it was just to help the sanitation workers. I don't think it accomplished right now in in there what it was trying to accomplish but only after his death and years after his death did it succeed. It's sad how he had died to make his dream a reality.After Martin Luther King was assassinated life in Memphis did substantially change certain people changed but it gave other people an attitude that just wasn't healthy and it turned peoples attitudes for the better. Sanitation workers attitudes were better they got their wages back so they started working again. The sad part about it was the attitudes also divided the people of Memphis by race because of the way they were acting. And after this Memphis was called "a backwater town of a turn of nickel politicians running it" Walter ConCripe. And after the assassination you began to see your gap between the white and the black races in the city of Memphis and it's just divided even deeper ever Since.