PHOTO: Janet Flashes Some Side Boob
WATCH: Will Smith Goes REALLY Old School On Fallon
On the eve of today's "Recommitment March," the National Civil Rights Museum presented "In Remembrance There is Life: A Night of Storytelling." Dr. King's life and legacy were celebrated through the stories of people who walked, talked and worked with him.
Civil Rights Museum - Memphis
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: The Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: The Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: Visitors looks toward the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, past a wreath marking the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: A wreath marks the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: Visitors looks toward the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, past a wreath marking the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: Janice O'Neill looks out from the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: A Memphis resident named Ekbe walks past the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, and the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: A wreath marks the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: A wreath marks the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 3: Students look out from the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, past a wreath marking the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death April 3, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Getty Images
The multi-media program was held in Hudson Hall, formerly the white waiting room of Central Station. The storytellers included Dr. Wyatt T. Walker, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Dr. Dorothy Cotton, Clarence Jones, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Tony Brown.
Memories of Dr. King's final days were shared by Dr. Benjamin Hooks, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., and the Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles who, along with the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, was with Dr. King in Room 306 in the final hour of his life.
Jackson made it clear that Dr. King did not give his life – it was taken:
He did not flinch in the face of death but Dr. King did not give his life. He was not afraid of death but he did not die a masochist.Dr. Cotton, the Education Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, asked:
What will you do? What will you do to bring Dr. King's dream alive?She reminded us that we are the ones we have been waiting for.
More King Coverage
+ 40 years later, question remains: What if King had lived?
+ New Book: America 'After King'
+ Who Really killed MLK?
+ Martin Luther King: Talking to History
Comments: (12)
Add a comment
By: Joan on 4/07/2008 6:15AM
Common folks, what is this kinda dialouge fixing? We need fixing not fighting -- although it be it verbally. Does anyone have any POSITIVE recommendations on how we as a people may regain some of the lost lost gains? I was 13 years old when Dr. King was murdured and even at that age felt what a huge blow to the gut it was for America. After the assasination of RFK that seemed somehow to be the straw that broke the camels back. First, the movement began to loose momentum and finally, gradually, things started going backwards. I want to hear and see something good and positve. I would like to know what are you personally doing to move this world forward? Is anyone who has begun to ascend trying to bring someone with you?
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: Buckwheat on 4/09/2008 8:08PM
ware my foty acar and mule ?
Reply to this Comment | Report This