OPINION: Here We Are, Fifty-Five Years after Martin Luther King, Jr. – Jackson Advocate

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OPINION: Here We Are, Fifty-Five Years after Martin Luther King, Jr. – Jackson Advocate

In February 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King went to Memphis to lend support to the Black striking sanitation workers. Within weeks, he was assassinated, at which point many African Americans felt not just leaderless, but lost. Since King’s murder in 1968, not just ordinary citizens, but historians and writers as well, have […]

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