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- North neither King's vigorous piety nor civil rights law
- were enough of an answer to the festering discontent of the
- urban slums. He was denounced as an Uncle Tom by
- more militant blacks, but he never lost faith. He was spied
- on by the FBI, which revealed his sexual indiscretions. He
- had many premonitions of death, and was still preaching
- non-violence when he was shot dead on a motel balcony in
- Memphis , Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.