 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi waApril 4, murwiri wekodzero dzavanhu Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. akaurayiwa.United States yakaputika mumhirizhonga ine masimba masimba, yakaipisisa yacho yakaitika muWashington, D.C., Chicago, uye Baltimore. Nzvimbo huru dzamaguta aya nedzimwe dzakawanda dzakapambwa, dzakapiswa, uye dzakaparadzwa navapanduki uye vanhu vanopfuura 40 vakaurawa mukati memwedzi wokuratidzira, uko kwakatungamirira kukakavadzana kukuru kwedzinza pakati pavaAmerica. Pasinei neizvi, mutemo unokosha, Civil Rights Act ya1968, iyo yaiva nhaka yaPurezidhendi John F. Kennedy, wakapfuudzwa nenyanzvi yaPurezidhendi Johnson muna April. Mutemo uyu wakapfuudzwa nekutsigirwa neCongress yemapato maviri uye zvakarambidza rusaruro rwokugara rwakavakirwa parudzi. 