What was the irony captured by Life photographer Steve Schapiro's photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when Schapiro took this snapshot several hours after King's assassination?

A) King's book Strength to Love, which was in his suitcase, recommended that activists start to
use violence to defend themselves.
B) King had planned to return to his room that now featured a newscast about his death.
C) King ate extravagantly for someone responsible for setting up the Poor People's Campaign.
D) King was killed just outside of his motel room.


B

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What will be an ideal response?

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When General Dwight Eisenhower received the Republican nomination for president in 1952, which wing of the party was he viewed as representing?

A) The moderate wing B) The conservative wing C) The hard-line wing D) The southern wing E) The left wing

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