Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
January 21, 2008, 8:39am
America is commemorating the birthday of slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. today. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., marked the occasion last week with a speech on the House floor.
“Dr. King turned a mirror on America, and the reflection was not good. It was ugly,” Cohen said. “America was not the land of the free, but it was a land built by the enslaved.”
Two Democrats in the California Assembly also commemorated King last week with floor speeches:
Categories: Tennessee, Civil Rights, Steve Cohen
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