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Associated PressMarches to honor legacy of MLKBy WOODY BAIRD, Associated Press Writer
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is to be honored as a champion of peace in the city where he died.
"Here was a man who understood nonviolence at a depth that I had never known before," said C.T. Vivian, a former King associate. Presidential candidates, civil rights leaders, labor activists and thousands of citizens were expected to come together Friday in Memphis to honor King for his devotion to racial equality and economic justice.
"The whole nation flinched" when King was killed by a rifle shot on April 4, 1968, said writer Cynthia Griggs Fleming, one of the many historians, commentators and activists in town for panel discussions and lectures on King's legacy.
King advised his followers to keep working for equal rights for all citizens, "to keep on moving," no matter what obstacles they faced, Fleming said in a talk Thursday at a Memphis church. "Don't be so consumed by the pain that you don't hear the message," she said.
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