They preached a simple truth: The memory you chose. That's who you are. The stories we tell or don't tell shape our lives. Still, they worry their grandchildren will never learn their history in school, and it will die when they do.
On March 4, 1964, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., then co-pastor with his father of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, returned to Montgomery, Ala... He came to the state capitol to vent his anger over the slow pace of racial change and announce a bold new campaign to leaders from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference... Time has come for massive assault on segregation in Alabama, he vowed.
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