In Alabama, MLK Day means memories of love in the face of hate
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who orchestrated the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56 and non-violent protest marches in Birmingham in 1963 inspired by Gandhi, was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.(AL.com file art/Bill Thomas/The Birmingham News)
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In Birmingham, King taught love in the face of hate.
This January would have marked King’s 91st birthday.
King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He was killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis. King’s wife, Coretta, was born in Marion, King was a pastor in Montgomery, and Alabama was a major backdrop for the events of his life, including the setting for his classic 1963 plea for civil rights, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”