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On January 15, Martin Luther King would have been ninety-two years old – if he were alive. Sadly, he was assassinated before his 40th birthday on April 4, 1968. He spearheaded the Civil Rights movement with his tactics of non-violence and has inspired three generations.
A number of local African-Americans were involved in the Civil Rights movement.
Paul Douglas has been active for more than sixty years in the struggle for equality. He grew up among well-known African-American heroes like Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson. His father was an athlete in the 1948 Olympics and Owens was his mentor.
While a student at Tuskegee University, Douglas worked on voter registration in nearby Selma, Alabama, and participated in the march from Selma to Montgomery with Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders. In fact, he worked with Viola Liuzzo and saw her moments before she took off in a car with a young black activist. A little while later, she was shot and killed by a