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Martin Luther King, Jr. was not only involved in changing the face of American oppression, but also had a hand in relieving oppression worldwide. In 1960, King was among those urging the United Nations to step in to end apartheid in South Africa after 69 blacks were killed during peaceful protest (Baldwin 2002).
Social and Economic Effects of the Plague. The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done.