April 5, 2008
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America By Michael Eric Dyson Basic, 290 pages, $24.95 Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder April 4, 1968, had a surprising long-term psychological effect. Though it traumatized American society, it soon served to mark a decisive, dramatic end to the confusions and deflated expectations of the civil rights movement's final years. It answered a longing for what people now call closure. The movement, in its early years, demanded great...