Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Grosse Pointe High School auditorium on March 14, 1968, to a crowd of more than two thousand people. In a speech entitled “The Other America,” he depicted two worlds within the nation: one where white families flourished, and another where black families struggled because of inequality. Nearly two hundred protestors from Breakthrough, an anti-communist group based in Detroit, picketed outside the high school and heckled him during the speech, criticizing his opposition to the Vietnam War. He allowed a few hecklers to voice their opinions during his presentation, and at the end he received a standing ovation. Just three weeks after visiting Grosse Pointe, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.