In the turbulent spring of 1968, amidst the clamor of the Memphis sanitation strike, a sixteen-year-old African American young man named Larry Payne was fatally shot. His death on March 28, 1968, was a tragic chapter in the city's history, intertwined with the civil rights movement and the final days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On that Thursday afternoon, a march in support of the striking sanitation workers had devolved into unrest. Larry was among those who had joined the demonstratio
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