Dr. King Timeline: "1968
February 12: Sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee.
March 28: Dr. King leads six thousand protestors on a march through downtown Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. Disorders break out during which black youths loot stores. One person is killed, fifty people are injured.
April 3: Dr. King delivers 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' at the Memphis Masonic Temple.
April 4:Dr. King is shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He dies in St. Joseph's Hospital.
April 4-11: Riots erupt in 125 cities around the country, including the nation's capital.
April 7-9: Dr. King lies in state at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Mourners file by at the rate of twelve hundred per hour.
April 8: Coretta King, Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter King, and Ralph Abernathy lead a memorial march for Dr. King in Memphis.
April 9: The funeral of Dr. King is held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He is laid to rest at the South View Cemetery. "