My Message to Him | Aiyanna Summerlin

Who from the Civil Rights Movement do you wish you could have met: “I would choose to meet Martin Luther King. And my message to him would be, ‘Thank you for having a dream.’ If it wasn’t for him, there’s a lot of movements and acts that wouldn’t take place, so mainly I would express my appreciation.”

I Am A Man Plaza in Memphis, commemorating the Black sanitation workers strike in 1968.
A re-creation of the cell where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Statue of Rosa Parks in a 1950s-era bus at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
UFxFAMU1963 students doing their work outside the the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama.

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