Former MLK associate: King would be proud of today's kids for protesting
Mason Temple Church was packed Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous Mountaintop Speech.
Posted — UpdatedDr. Bernard Lafayette, a first cousin of WRAL reporter Gilbert Baez, worked closely with King and helped organize the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Lafayette wore the battle scars of the freedom movement. He was locked up and beaten, but never struck back. He said King would be proud of the young people who march today for a number of social reasons.
“It was his staff, Ella Baker, who went and mobilized all of the student demonstrations from various college campuses, brought them together to form SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in Raleigh, North Carolina, and that’s why it was formed at Shaw University,” Lafayette said.
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