Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.
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Riding in the plane that brought MLK’s body home forever changed Sun City man’s life | Island Packet
“It helped make me who I am.”
View MoreFrom the archives: Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about ‘new age’ of race relations in moving Des Moines speech | Des Moines Register
This story by Register reporter Robert Barewald originally ran on Nov. 13, 1959. April 4, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
View MoreSouthern states join to promote Civil Rights Trail to tourists | Times-Picayune
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confederacy was born and the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died.
View MoreMeet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence | The Conversation
On this anniversary of King’s birthday, it’s worth looking at how King learned to integrate spiritual growth and social transformation.
View MoreMartin Luther King Jr. statue to rise on Georgia Capitol, as Confederate monuments fall | Chicago Tribune
The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn’t get the details of the famous man’s face exactly right.
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