your opinion, absent EVIDENCE, is worthless.
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What do you dispute? That the march broke down and almost became a riot? That King was hustled away from the scene? That the FBI took the breakdown of the march to use as a propaganda wedge against his policy of nonviolence? That it wasn't the march but King's assassination that had the effect of making the feds step in and broker an end to the strike? You seem to be quick to call easily-found history bilge, while failing to present anything like an alternative. What was it that made that day so "glorious," to use your word? Was it the window smashing, the boy the police shot? What?
your opinion, absent EVIDENCE, is worthless.
Okay, evidence:
From the National Archives:
Unfortunately the demonstration on March 28 turned sour when a group of rowdy students at the tail end of the long parade of demonstrators used the signs they carried to break windows of businesses. Looting ensued. The march was halted, the demonstrators dispersed, and King was safely escorted from the scene. About 60 people had been injured, and one young man, a looter, was killed. This episode prompted the city of Memphis to bring a formal complaint in the District Court against King, Hosea Williams, James Bevel, James Orange, Ralph Abernathy, and Bernard Lee, King's associates in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
From the King Center:
March 28 Dr. King leads six thousand protesters on a march through downtown Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. Disorder breaks out during which black youths loot stores. One sixteen-year-old is killed and fifty people are injured.
From the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis:
A planned peaceful demonstration on March 28 turned into a riot. Stunned, King vowed that he would not give up. He promised to return and hold a peaceful march in support of the workers. King planned a march for April 8th and flew into Memphis on April 3rd where he checked into the Lorraine Motel. That night he delivered his "Mountaintop" speech at Mason Temple during a tremendous thunderstorm. This would be King's last speech. He was assassinated the next day standing on the balcony of the Lorraine.
Here's an article from the Memphis Commmercial Appeal about the army intelligence agents on the scene:
March 28 -- King leads rescheduled march on City Hall. At 11:20 a.m., a riot breaks out. Some 60 people are injured, four of them shot by police. One teenager dies.
From the Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (holders of King's personal papers):
28 March King leads a march of six thousand protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march descends into violence and looting, and King is rushed from the scene.