Substitute teacher resigns after telling class of mostly black students 'Martin Luther King Jr killed himself'
A substitute teacher from North Carolina reportedly resigned after she was accused of telling her class — mostly full of black students — that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr was not assassinated, he instead killed himself. She also allegedly told the students that real Christians supported President Donald Trump.
King Jr, a social activist and champion of the civil rights movement in the country, was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of a Memphis, Tennessee motel on April 4, 1968.
The incident was brought to the school authorities' attention when a ten-year-old black student at Rand Road Elementary School, Nathan Byrd, told his father that his teacher also told him and others in the class that their clothing suggested they were "marked for prison," Daily Mail reported.