Answer:
Martin Luther King, Jr., was standing on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, when he was shot and killed by James Earl Ray. An hour later, King died at St. Joseph’s hospital. His death sparked a number of riots across the country.
Explanation:
<u>It is true</u>. <em><u>On January 1, 1863</u></em>, as the nation approached its third year of civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the<u> final Emancipation Proclamation</u>. <u>The preliminary Proclamation</u> was issued the year before, <em><u>on September 22nd</u></em>. <u>It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Southern rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."</u>
c - it was very hard work to farm their crops with very little money.