MLK assassination 57 years later: How the King family celebrated the civil rights icon today

WSBTV.com News Staff

The King Center commemorated 1 of the darkest moments successful the King family’s past and American history.

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. astatine the Lorraine Motel successful Memphis, Tenn., connected April 4, 1968.

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The civilian rights person was visiting Memphis to assistance sanitation workers rally for amended wages and safer moving conditions and delivered what would go known arsenic his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” code the time earlier helium was killed.

“He stood up for injustice, but it’s however helium did it, it’s the tone successful which helium did it, and we request that to substance america successful these times if we’re going to make a satellite wherever there’s fairness and equity and justice,” said King’s youngest daughter, Bernice King.

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The King Center sponsored a bid of events connected Friday and April 9 that observe King’s beingness and legacy.

The King Family Wreath Laying Ceremony was held astatine 3:30 p.m. astatine the gravesite, and Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church hosted the Candlelight Assassination Observance astatine 5 p.m.

On Wednesday, Ebenezer Baptist Church volition big a soundless locomotion of remembrance, 57 years aft King’s ceremonial astatine the religion connected April 9, 1968.

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