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RSS FeedsLESSONS OF DR. KING: Killeen area residents say share them with younger generations
(World News USA)

 
 

19 january 2020 16:16:32

 
LESSONS OF DR. KING: Killeen area residents say share them with younger generations
(World News USA)
 


When Killeen resident Harrison Jones III was young, his mother took him to a Woolworth´s store in Shreveport, Louisiana. Being the youngest of five children, Jones didn´t think much of it. `I wasn´t looking for white people or black people,` he said. `I was just glad that I was sitting there eating the apple pie and drinking the Coke.` What he learned later is that his mother was participating in a sit-in protest during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the mid-1960s. `I wasn´t old enough to go to school at the time,` he said. `I was the last one in the house, so I was the one she had to take with her.` A few years later, in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was...


 
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