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Memphis pilgrimage honors MLK
The 30th anniversary of
Martin Luther King Jr. ’s
death brought together
people of all ages
By Woody Baird
The Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 30th
anniversary of Martin Luther
King Jr.’s death brought back
memories to those who fought for
civil rights and gave a history les
son to those too young to remem
ber.
Mary Mohrbacher, 16, said she
and a group of other students
from Champaign, 111., got the
chance to talk to people who
took part in the movement, some
of whom knew King personally.
“Books can give you the facts,
but people can actually explain
it, tell you how they felt,” she
said.
The weekend-long anniversary
observance, called “Pilgrimage to
Memphis,” brought in people
from all over the country, includ
ing Earl Winfrey III of St. Louis,
who was bom the year King died.
“You have to feel a personal
r
commitment when you see
everything they were going
through then,” he said.
Etta Johnson told young people
about her experiences helping or
ganize civil rights activities in
Nashville in the early 1960s.
“We trained students in nonvi
olence,” she said at a prayer vigil
at The Lorraine Motel where
King was murdered on April 4,
1968. “We taught them how to be
spit on, how to be burned with
cigarettes or stuck with pins and
not react.”
In the courtyard of The Lor
raine, now the National Civil
Rights Museum, vigil partici
pants held small flashlights
shaped like candles and read a
pledge to remember King’s mes
sage of justice and nonviolence:
“This is my judgment, my pur
pose and my will. I will hold up
my light.”
King was killed while in Mem
phis to help organize a sanitation
workers strike.
He was planning to lead a
strikers’ march on April 8 when
an assassin shot him on The Lor
(( You have to feel a
personal commitment
when you see everything
they were going through
then.
Earl Wintrey III
St. Louis resident
raine’s second floor balcony.
James Earl Ray, a prison escapee
from Missouri, pleaded guilty to
the murder and is serving a 99
year prison sentence.
A march Saturday tracing the
route that demonstrators would
have taken through downtown
Memphis drew more than 4,000
participants singing “We Shall
Overcome” and other standards
of the civil rights movement.
“It’s a good thing to finish this
march,” said George Dowdy, who
marched with King in the 1960s.
“But we’ve got to follow through
[on King’s mission]. It’s just like
faith. Faith is good, but you have
to have action, too.”
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