Dabney Montgomery, Tuskegee Airman who safeguarded Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 93 - News Summed Up

Dabney Montgomery, Tuskegee Airman who safeguarded Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 93


You got to go around the back,'” Montgomery told Alice Bernstein in a video interview. Martin Luther King Jr. died at age 93 of natural causes Sept. 3, his wife, Amelia Montgomery, told the Associated Press. Montgomery protected King during the famous 1965 march to Montgomery from Selma, Ala. — Montgomery’s home town. In Selma, fresh out of the army, he tried to register to vote, according to the Bernstein interview. pic.twitter.com/qEjtccHMnL — Alex M. Pineda (@AlexMPineda) September 4, 2016“He just loved motivating young people to be somebody,” his Amelia Montgomery told the AP.


Source: Washington Post September 04, 2016 19:52 UTC



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