A year before he was assassinated (April 4, 1968) in Memphis, Tenn.–where he had gone on 1968 to marshal support for sanitation workers on strike for better pay and safer working conditions–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News discussed the burgeoning civil-rights struggle, the role and responsibilities of leadership and the prospects for Black progress.
Leid Stories asks: Based on King’s criteria and vision, how do we measure up as professed agents of change?