In this state, Bill White led former World War II GIs against local police led by Pat Cantrell during the governorship of Jim McCord in the Battle of Athens. A senator from this state appeared on the game show What’s My Line to educate the public about his committee to prosecute the Mafia, sponsored an amendment with Oren Harris to regulate drug safety, and was elected after saying he was not Ed Crump’s pet. An event in this state that was opposed by Henry Loeb was sparked by the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker. (*) Adlai Stevenson’s running mate in the 1956 election was from this state. A few days after saying he could “see the promised land,” a leader was killed in this state’s Lorraine Motel. Estes Kefauver was from, for 10 points, what state where Martin Luther King Jr. stated “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” during a sanitation strike in Memphis? ■END■
ANSWER: Tennessee [or TN]
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