MARTIN LUTHER KING KR. DAY; MINNESOTA HISTORY; No mountaintops, but his words echo; At key stages of the civil rights struggle, King shared his dream in Minnesota.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: January 17, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Terry Collins; Staff Writer

A photo captures him onstage peering reflectively into the crowd, witnessing pockets of blacks and whites sitting side by side who were eagerly awaiting what he had to say on this sunny spring day.

It was April 26, 1967. The last time the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Minnesota.

"I was standing right behind him, listening to everything he said," educator and historian Mahmoud El-Kati said. "At that time he held the moral conscience of this country."

El-Kati, a longtime community activist regarded as the "Wise Man" in the ...

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