"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King, Jr. sites visited:
The Lorraine Motel where MLK was assassinated is now the National Civil Rights Museum, 450 Mulberry Street in Memphis. We visited in 2016. The museum makes you relive the tragedy of 1968 but also honors the brave and courageous, short life that Martin Luther King, Jr., lived.
The boarding house from which James Earl Ray fired the fatal shot was made part of the museum.
For more of his history, this is an excellent book based on Martin's writings.
The sister cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph in Michigan each have a sculpture memorial. "A Seat at the Table" is in Dwight P. Michell City Center Park, 127 Pipestone Street in Benton Harbor.
"The Mountaintop" can be found in Margaret B. Upton Arboretum, 601 Water Street, St. Joseph.
In 2024, we visited Washington D.C. and walked to the Martin Luther King, Jr, Memorial in West Potomac Park. Completed in 2011, it stands 30 feet tall and is inscribed "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
Views from across the bay.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
RIP Martin 💗
"The end of non-violent action is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community."
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