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Column: We lose history about as fast as we gain holidays
Harris Blackwood
Harris Blackwood
In the next few days, we will observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his 93rd birthday. While we have seen many of the old guard of the civil rights movement both age and die, our image of King is fixed on the 39-year-old man who was shot down on a motel balcony in Memphis.