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Dr. Martin Luther King's Assassination

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It is an honor to be here this morning to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. Dr. King was a Baptist minister and social activist who championed the advancement of civil rights through tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience. Fifty years ago, Dr. King arrived in Memphis Tennessee to support the sanitation workers strike. On April 3, 1968, he delivered his last sermon here in Memphis, Tennessee, entitled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” at the Mason Temple Church of God in Christ and on the following day, Dr. King was assassinated. We are left with the eloquence of his writings about education, speeches about inequality, social injustice, sermons about love, and his dream for America to end racism.
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