Two weeks ago Alphonso Jackson and Margaret Spellings sat with a group of civic leaders from around the country at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum was built on the site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The room King rented the night before he died remains exactly as it was during his assassination in April of 1968. I have often thought that the Civil Rights Movement was mortally wounded in Memphis and it bled to death over the next ten years or so.
Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
Bishop Harry Jackson is chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, MD, and co-authored, Personal Faith, Public Policy [FrontLine; March 2008] with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.