Clarion Defender_1968-04 Special Memorial Edition

,_ CLA~ION DEFENDeR LEADERS MEET IN CIVIL RIGHTS "SUMMIT CONFERENCE"--Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr., third from right, sits with other leaders at civil rights "summit conference" in New York. From left are Bayard Rustin; Jack Greenberg, director of counsel of the NAACP Educational and Legal Defense Fund; Whitney Young, Jr., director of DR. KING'S PROPHETIC WORDS (The night before he was murdered, Martin Luther King said this in a speech in Memphis:) "WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW. WE'VE GOT SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD. BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WITH ME NOW BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP, AND I DON'T MIND • . "LIKE ANYBODY, I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE A LONG LIFE. LONGEVITY HAS ITS PLACE. BUT I'M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THAT NOW. I JUST WANT TO DO GOD'S WILL. AND HE HAS ALLOWED ME TO GO UP TO THE MOUNTA AND I HAVE LOOKED OVER, AND I HAVE SEEN THE PROMISED LAND. "I MAY NOT GET THERE WITH YOU, BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW TONIGHT THAT WE AS A PEOPLE WILL GET TO THE PROMISED LAND. "SO I AM HAPPY TONIGHT -- I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT ANYTHING. I AM NOT FEARING ANY MAN. MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD. II the National Urban League; James Farmer~ national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary; King; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non– violent Coordinating Committee; and A. Philip Randolph, chairman of the National Negro American Labor Council. IN MEMORIAM He had a Dream Doctor Martin Luther King stood on a mountain-top, not only in his dream, but in reality. His vision. inspired all thinking Americans. His memory will continue to guide us. until that day when, as he said. "The dawn will come." Lipman Wolfe & Company