martin luther king jr Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/martin-luther-king-jr/ S.O. What! Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:04:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 martin luther king jr Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/martin-luther-king-jr/ 32 32 152051023 5 Kids’ First Flights and Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. https://summerowens.com/7849-2-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ https://summerowens.com/7849-2-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:07:11 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=7849 ​It’s Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday! As a 17 year-old high school student moving to Memphis, TN for college, I had no idea that Memphis would be my home for at least the next 20 years. And ignorantly, I didn’t know the depth of the civil rights history of the city. When I started my speaking career and then […]

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