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Local activists recall meeting Martin Luther King Jr.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The year was 1965: the height of the civil rights movement when the lives of a pair of teens from North Philadelphia would change forever.
Kenneth Salaam and Karen Asper Jordan were only 16 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Philadelphia to join a demonstration at Girard College to pressure the school to allow black students to attend.

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Full story link: https://6abc.com/martin-luther-king-jr-mlk-assassination-anniversary/3301808/

Oral history interview with Kenneth A. Salaam, May 9, 2011

https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p16002coll1/id/29/

Days after Cecil B. Moore mural vandalism, Philadelphia Freedom Fighters come together to thank repair efforts

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/articles/news/cecil-b-moore-mural-repaired-days-after-vandalism

Cecil B. Moore’s youth activists provide history lesson

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/cecil-b-moore-s-youth-activists-provide-history-lesson/article_260ff230-5cdc-5810-94af-fbba52938820.html

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the march to desegregate Girard College

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/education/20150429_Celebrating_the_50th_Anniversary_of_the_march_to_desegregate_Girard_College.html

The Revolutionary Spirit of Jazz on MLK Day

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