Soul music legend Al Green capped the afternoon with a crowd-pleasing rendition of “Love and Happiness.” The Rev. Jesse Jackson caught the spirit. (Photo: Warren Roseborough)
MLK50: A Day in Pictures
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Members of AFSCME 1733 joined in the commemorative I AM A MAN march. (Photo: Karanja A. Ajanaku)
Plenty of youngsters participated in MLK50 activities, including the march.
(Photo: Johnathan Martin)
Dr. Charles Steele Jr., President of the National Southern Christian Leadership Conference, issues a fiery call to action at The National Civil Rights Museum.
(Photo: Warren Roseborough)
During the MLK50 celebration in Memphis, U.S. Congressman John Lewis did karaoke singing "Love and Happiness" with Al Green. Memphis native Kirk Whalum accompanied on saxophone. (Photo: Warren Roseborough/The New Tri-State Defender Archives)
Dr. Everett Ward, General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., leads the fraternity’s annual wreath-laying ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum. Dr. King joined Alpha Phi Alpha while a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Alpha Phi Alpha’s Southern Region Convention was hosted by Memphis-area chapters.
(Photo: Warren Roseborough)
The New Tri-State Defender hosted a bell ringing at Handy Park on Beale Street. (Photo: Brian Ramoly)
Soul music legend Al Green capped the afternoon with a crowd-pleasing rendition of “Love and Happiness.” The Rev. Jesse Jackson caught the spirit. (Photo: Warren Roseborough)
COGIC Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. locked arms and marches alongside The Rev. Al Sharpton. (Photo: Johnathan Martin)
AFSCME President Lee Saunders rallied a packed Mason Temple COGIC on the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s “Mountaintop” speech. (Photo: Tyrone P. Easley)
Among the notables participating in Wednesday’s march: Civil Rights icon James Lawson (center), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, AFSCME President Lee Saunders and famed percussionist Sheila E. (Photo: Johnathan Martin)
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland gets into the spirit. (Photo: Johnathan Martin)
Academy Award-winning Hip-hop artist and actor Common pumped his fist during earlier festivities at the National Civil Rights Museum. (Photo: Johnathan Martin)
The Rev. Bernice King, with her brother, Martin Luther King III, at her side addresses the capacity crowd at Mason Temple during the Mountaintop Speech Commemoration on April 3, 2018. Also pictured (left,seated), Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. of the Church of God in Christ. (Photo: Tyrone P. Easley/The New Tri-State Defender)
