Impact of the King Assassination. Though blacks and whites alike mourned Kingâs passing, the killing in some ways served to widen the rift between black and white Americans, as many blacks saw Kingâs assassination as a rejection of their vigorous pursuit of equality through the nonviolent resistance he had championed.
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane Originally published as, Stephen Crane's Own Story (1897), The Open Boat is based on the real-life ordeal that Crane endured when the boat he was taking to Cuba ran aground and sank off the Florida coast.
When composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up in the mid-1920s to write Show Boat, a groundbreaking musical about life along the Mississippi River, they created one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs of the 20th century â Ol' Man River..