<span>In the wake of King's assassination in 1968 riots broke out in more than one hundred cities across the United States as people grieved; James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th 1968, when King had come to Memphis in support of a labor strike.</span>
<span>They assumed only prominent individuals could win election in large districts. There were also less states and people in the country, so 65 people was at the time considered a fair representation of the country.</span>
