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The Tablet January 19, 2021 Father Alonzo Cox (right), who led the prayer service, said that while African-Americans had not yet reached the promised land of racial justice as King had predicted, “We will get there.” (Photos: Paula Katinas) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Maria Stange has vivid memories of the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She was only eight years old at the time, but April 4, 1968, is burned into her brain. “It was incredible. People who didn’t even know each other were hugging each other on the street. That’s how emotional everybody felt,” she said....

The Tablet January 8, 2021 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured in an undated file photo. (Photo: Catholic News Service) BEDFORD–STUYVESANT — Brooklynites in the winter of 1963 got a preview of one of history’s most iconic moments — the delivery several months later of the “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Feb. 10, 1963, the civil rights leader visited the historic Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, which, a century earlier, became a rallying center for the abolitionist movement and a stop on the Underground Railroad. Its first pastor, Rev. H...