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Dreamer was killed, but not the Dream

4/5/2013

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It was April 4, 1968 when our nation lost a great leader and a great dreamer. The anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination was remembered across our nation and in other countries.

From www.huffingtonpost.com
"In 1968, he traveled to Memphis to support sanitation workers who were striking against unfair working conditions and low pay. King was shot and killed while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Hotel. He was 39.
James Earl Ray, a segregationist, confessed to the assassination but recanted shortly afterward and tried for years to get a new trial. He died in prison in 1998 while serving a 99-year sentence.
The hotel is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, which on Thursday will commemorate King's death with a labor union rally, wreath laying and panel discussion including Alvin Turner, a retired sanitation worker who participated in the strike.
"It's been 45 years since the assassination, and it's been 45 years that the country's struggle has continued for equality and freedom," said Barbara Andrews, director of education for the National Civil Rights Museum."

The dreamer was killed, but not the dream.  King provoked our nation to embrace its destiny to end racism and advance civil rights.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."  Martin Luther King Jr.

The apostle Paul wrote about an equality in Christ.
Galatians 3:26-28
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


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