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“Quit Playin” You can run on for a long time…but sooner or later God will cut you down.– Johnny Cash The arc of the moral universe...

ATLANTA — Local civil rights leaders implored Gov. Nathan Deal not to move forward with plans to hoist a memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on…

  Evelyn Lowery, wife of fellow civil rights activist Rev. Joseph Lowery, poses for a photo at the SCLC Woman center which she...

  Doctors say they have done all they can for Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, who remains...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (AP Photo/File) by John Blake (CNN) -- Nan Grogan Orrock defied her family's wishes by sneaking away to join the 1963 March on Washington. But don't ask her about Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. She doesn't remember it.