Monday, April 5, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Memphis rally marks death of King
31st anniversary turnout a fraction of 1998 event's
The Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One year after 4,000 marchers stretched six blocks to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., a scant 15 showed up yesterday to remember the slain civil rights leader.
The 31st anniversary rally, sponsored by the Memphis chapter of the NAACP youth council, featured chants, songs
and speeches. The group stood under the balcony of The Lorraine Motel, where King was assassinated in 1968.
"Society can be reborn again if we can stop violence and stop the hate," said 15-year-old Aren Cowan, the council's vice president, in a speech. She said this was the first year the anniversary has fallen on Easter Sunday.
National Civil Rights Museum, where many visitors were unaware of the day's significance as they wandered upon the afternoon rally.
day The motel is now the site of the
"We didn't know anything about it," said Ruth Johnson, of Huntsville, Ala. "We were just here."
Kim Peters, a teacher from Fredericksburg, Va., said King was among the famous African Americans her classes discuss during February's black history month.
"I wanted to see this... We had no idea that anything like this was going on," she said.
the low-key rally was a stark
contrast to the 30th anniversary, when thousands of marchers, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis Mayor W.W. Herenton, sang We Shall Overcome and other standards from the civil-rights movement and carried pictures of King and signs saying, "Remember the Man and the Message."
Elsewhere in Memphis, several multiracial community worship services yesterday remembered King's life and death while celebrating Easter.
"It was 2,000 years ago that Jesus of Nazareth died on Calvary. And this place we call Memphis is a kind of Calvary
because a man of God died at The Lorraine Motel 31 years ago today," said Rev. Bill Adkins, pastor of the Greater Imani Church and Christian Center in a morning service at the Mid-South Colliseum.
King was slain in Memphis while helping organize a strike by city sanitation workers. He was standing on the balcony of The Lorraine when he was felled by a single rifle slug.
James Earl Ray, a prison escapee from Missouri, pleaded guilty to killing King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He later recanted. Ray died last April of liver disease at age 70.
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