Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Jesse Jackson, Grant Park, November 4, 2008

Jesse Jackson. Grant Park. November 4, 2008.

photo from Bag News Notes.

The sight of Jesse Jackson weeping in Grant Park inevitably brings back memories for those who were alive forty years ago of the hopes and fears of the Civil Rights era, and of other images of that time. In April we saw the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis. Here are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, 3 April 1968, the day before King was killed.

Memphis, 4 April 1968

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