When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 I was in Dessie, Wallo, Ethiopia in the Peace Corps. I was filling in for another nurse who was ill and had to return to the states. An Ethiopian who worked with another volunteer said that " Martin Luther, King of the Negroes" had been killed. It was so strange to be there when things like that happened in the states. We were expected to justify things that were unjustifiable. I can't help but think of that every year at this time.
" I have a dream... that my four little children will be judged not by the color of their skin but my the content of their character." MLK,Jr.
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