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Killing of Larry Payne
1950–1968
United States
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Larry Payne (born in 1950) was a seventeen-year old African American teenager who was murdered by a policeman following a march in support of the Memphis sanitation strike on Thursday, March 28, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the only fatality on that day although the New Pittsburgh Courier reported 60 injured and 276 arrested. Martin Luther King Jr.
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