Atlantans Take To Twitter, Honor MLK, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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April 3rd, 2018

In 1992 at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is shown embracing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, right, during a Martin Luther King Day ceremony.

Erik S. Lesser / Associated Press file

 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shown giving a speech in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. (Horace Cort/Associated Press file)[/
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shown giving a speech in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. (Horace Cort/Associated Press file)

This is an important and eventful week in civil rights history.

Atlantans have taken to Twitter to honor South African anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as Wednesday will be the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

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