Were it not for the novel coronavirus pandemic, the National Civil Rights Museum would be teeming with visitors peering at the balcony where, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. took his last breath.
But King wouldn’t have wanted people to risk their lives to honor his.
That’s why, instead of commemorating King with a ceremony in front of Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel on Saturday, the museum is doing a virtual program on his life at 6:01 p.m. That was the exact time he was shot; the hour that the pain of his loss began to reverberate around […]
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