I interviewed Marie S. During 1968, she was fourteen years old and lived in Cordova. Life was very fun for Marie. She enjoyed playing outside. Marie also got along with white kids and was very active with them. Since she was the oldest of her siblings, she had to be responsible in order to take care of her younger siblings. Marie walked them to school and cooked while the younger ones were at school. Their parents died while they were young so she she had a big role to fill.
On the day of the assassination, she remembered being at home watching it on the news. She was terrified when she heard that King had been killed. She cried because she supported his civil rights movement. As the day went on many people were upset with King's assassination and reacted in a violent way. People began to start riots, burn buildings, and steal from stores.
People realized that King was a great leader who wanted to change the world during his life. After he died people also realized that he was a Godly man who would die for change and didn't want to react in a violent way.
After King died, things gradually got better with the society. It took some time but people started to get along. Blacks and whites began to go to school together and use the same bathrooms. Martin Luther King visioned that every one would get along and be nonviolent one day.