Sustaining The Dream
The first weekend in April, I had a chance to make history. I don’t believe that most Emory students save the eleven that came along could say that. For the Emory dozen, the weekend began early, midnight on Thursday to be exact, at the Morehouse College campus with 91 other college students from five other Atlanta universities. There, we boarded two buses to Memphis — we were going to a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and to introduce a new message.
The first weekend in April, I had a chance to make history. I don’t believe that
most Emory students save the eleven that came along could say that.
For
the Emory dozen, the weekend began early, midnight on Thursday to be exact, at
the Morehouse College campus with 91 other college students from five other
Atlanta universities. There, we boarded two buses to Memphis — we were going to
a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and to introduce a
new message.
This new message was one of civil rights but also of the
environment. It was a message that recognized the inseparable ties between the
environment and human well-being. This was the dream reborn.
The Dream
Reborn Conference took place a dozen blocks from the place King was
assassinated, and started exactly 40 years after that day. This was a symbolic
year because King was killed at age 39; he has now been dead for longer than he
had been alive.
