THE NSF CHECK BY AMERICA FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS - AUDIO & VISUAL

 4-4-21 - HAPPY EASTER!

USA| MILWAUKEE, WI

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a century after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, King lamented "the Negro still is not free."

One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

And so begins one of the most renowned speeches in American history.

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Today, we remember 53 years have passed. On this day, Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was shot and killed 53 years ago in Memphis, TN at the Lorraine Hotel.

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WE REMEMBER.  WE HONOR.