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Cook: From the coal mine to the ghetto

Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 1/8/17. A Unity Group attendee looks at a M.L. King Celebration Day flyer while at Eastdale Village Community Methodist Church on Sunday, January 8, 2017.
Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 1/8/17. A Unity Group attendee looks at a M.L. King Celebration Day flyer while at Eastdale Village Community Methodist Church on Sunday, January 8, 2017. Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 1/8/17. A Unity Group attendee looks at a M.L. King Celebration Day flyer while at Eastdale Village Community Methodist Church on Sunday, January 8, 2017.

By David Cook 4 min read

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If You Go:

What: Annual MLK Day MarchWhere: Urban League on M.L. King Boulevard to Tivoli TheatreWhen: Line up at 3:30, march begins at 4 p.m.

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was once again arrested in Alabama, and sentenced to four days in the Birmingham Jail. As the hours passed, the white guards and wardens stood outside his cell, doing a little mocking, gawking and talking.

They told him he was wrong about integration.

Wrong about interracial marriage.

Wrong about equality.