05 November 2008



I took this picture on my Mission:Possible Spring Break trip my junior year of college. It is located at the Civil Rights Museum in Nashville, TN. Across the street from this sign is the Lorraine Motel--the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. MLK Jr spoke these words on April 3rd, 1968. The next day, April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was struck down by an assassin's bullet.

If you can't read it clearly, it says:
I May Not Get There With You But I Want You To Know That We As A People Will Get To The Promised Land.

Forty years after MLK Jr said these words, the United States of America elected not just their 44th President, but their first African American President.

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