MLK’s son calls for ‘a higher road’ from balcony where his father died
Martin Luther King III speaks from the balcony where his father was murdered during the April 4th Commemoration at the National Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, April 4. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Fifty-six years to the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son stood on the balcony where his father was fatally wounded in 1968 and talked about the movement King led in the here and now.
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