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Long Beach Martin Luther King Center hosts parade
Hundreds of people marched the streets of downtown Long Beach on Monday singing “We Shall Overcome” and waving American flags, more than 40 years after Martin Luther King Jr. himself walked the same path as an example of civil disobedience.
“Dr. King walked these streets not so long ago,” said Wilton Robinson Jr., a trustee of the Long Beach Martin Luther King Center, referring to King’s May...
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