I interviewed my neighbor, W. S.. Mr. S. was 30 years old in 1968, when Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. On the day of Dr.Kings death, my neighbor, a young man with three young children, was at a Boys Club Meeting in the general Midtown area of Memphis. After the announcement of King's death, he rushed home to his family, he feared for his life because he was unsure of how the streets in Memphis would be after such a life changing event. Over the course of the night, my neighbor felt that the community had become more polarized due to the major death in the city. Mr. S. drove home from his meeting and began watching the breaking news, and he recalled that people in the community were apprehensive to what would occur next. He said that his life did not change that much after the death of Dr. King, but that the city became a headquarters for the civil rights movement. Mr. S. did say that after this major event, the communities attitudes did change, which he described was more distant and there was a mistrust that lingered in the atmosphere after Kings death.