Larry Payne
Larry Payne was a sixteen-year old African American teenager who was killed following a march in support of the Memphis Sanitation Strike on Thursday, March 28, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.[1] He was the only fatality on that day although the New Pittsburgh Courier reported 60 injured and 276 arrested.[2]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Payne's mother, Lizzie Payne, on the phone to console her after her son's brutal death at the hands of Patrolman LD Jones.[3] King planned to visit Payne's mother during his next visit to Memphis, but was killed before the visit could occur.[4]
King would be assassinated a few days later on April 4, 1968 when he returned to Memphis in an effort to hold a peaceful march unmarred by looting and violence.
After Payne's death, Lizzie Payne, his mother, moved to Flint, Michigan.[5]
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References
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External links
- "My thoughts: Wither Larry Payne, civil rights and hallowed grounds?" Commercial Appeal, February 27, 2016.
- Interview with Larry Payne's mother, brother, and sister (Recorded: March 2, 2010)
- FBI to Re-Open Memphis Civil Rights era cold case (WMC Channel 5 News)
- For Larry Payne (a poem commissioned by Fusion Theatre Company and written by Hakim Bellamy, November 9, 2013)
- 1968 labor disputes and strikes
- History of Memphis, Tennessee
- Civil rights protests in the United States
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- History of African-American civil rights
- Labor disputes in the United States
- 1968 in Tennessee
- Victims
- Police brutality
- Victims of human rights abuses
- Deaths by firearm in the United States
- Killings by law enforcement officers
- Shooting victims
- 1968 deaths
