Remembering the dream

Remembering the dream

Jacksonville community members marched Monday to honor the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Remembering the Dream

While King was assassinated at the age of 39 in 1968, his legacy of service and fighting for justice through nonviolent means has long outlasted his time on Earth. “I lived through the Civil Rights Movement. I saw what happened to Dr. King, and how he was doing things they said he couldn’t do,” Mayor JB Whitten said. “I saw the prosecution he went through, the jail time he spent. It takes a great man to stand up and continue to do that.” Whitten…