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We Are the Heirs to Dr. King and 'The Movement'
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We Are the Heirs to Dr. King and 'The Movement'

The mantle remains on our shoulders and those of our children

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On the way back from a weekend in rural Ashe County, West Jefferson, NC, my wife and I are listening to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, delivered the night before he was killed in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968.

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