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For Civil Rights activist Mattie Jones, Dr. King’s dream became a lifetime of action
At 92, Mattie Jones recalls organizing Dr. King’s Louisville visits and stresses civil rights as an ongoing intergenerational responsibility.
- On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mattie Jones reflected on meeting and organizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his Louisville visits in the 1960s.
- Dr. King’s message `we can't take this anymore`, Jones said, shook her and pushed her into local organizing to make change.
- Jones helped organize one of King’s visits at West Chestnut Street Baptist Church, at 18th and Chestnut, where she said `blood would just get warm in your body when you heard him speak the truth`.
- Having marched on the front lines, Mattie Jones spent decades advocating for equality and justice, saying she 'gave her best' and the work lives in her Louisville, Kentucky home.
- At 92, Jones says it feels good to have lived long enough to see change and warns, `then we will continue to fall down and compromise& compromise true freedom and justice and equality for all`, urging defense of future generations.
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