“Another element of this was that he had a pad,” Dr. Carson said of the Camden home. His research caused Dr. Carson to rethink Dr. King’s years at the seminary, the first time he was out of the watchful eye of his father, a traditional Baptist pastor. Photo“Anything that survives from the past that allows us to illuminate some significant aspect of the past is valuable to have,” Dr. Carson said. Mr. Lewis marched alongside Dr. King in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, the day Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Mr. Lewis said Martin Luther King Jr. Day was especially poignant this year because America’s first black president, Barack Obama, would leave office on the same week as the national holiday.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2017 16:10 UTC