Alyssa Taylor’s voice, smooth and powerful as she recited Sam Cooke’s 1964 classic, reverberated through a crowd of about 100 who gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination April 4, 1968.
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Expressions of sorrow and pleas for calm filled the April 5, 1968, edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream that his children, peers and mentors would have the opportunity for quality of life, access to education, and to be seen as human, said Micajah Daniels, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter UNLV.
Former state archivist Guy Rocha traces the origins of the description “The Mississippi of the West” to a March 1954 issue of Ebony magazine.
Four years before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. left an indelible impression at two speeches in Las Vegas.
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