Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author huffingtonpost.com On the evening of April 4, 1968, I was studying in my dorm room at Duke University. I was a political science major, and the Assistant Housemaster of a freshman dormitory. In mid-evening a freshman raced down the hall to my room, in tears. He blurted out [...]
Clarence B. Jones Scholar in Residence, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University huffingtonpost.com April 4 is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tenn. This anniversary occurs against the background of other memorable past and current events: Last week’s 40th anniversary of the founding [...]
Benjamin Todd Jealous President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP huffingtonpost.com Seventeen years ago, I was an organizer in Mississippi. And I was scared. We were planning a march to stop the governor from turning a public, historically black university, Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, into a prison. Byron De La Beckwith had [...]
A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel. By James Rainey April 1, 2011 LA Times The Mississippi fairly glides through this old cotton country, nothing if not strong and serene. But look [...]
Listen to the story… April 1, 2011 NPR Forty-three years ago, on April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. took the stage at Mason Temple, a black church in Memphis, Tenn., to deliver what was to be his final speech. His “Mountaintop” speech, which touched on his own mortality and how the civil rights movement [...]
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