During the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. often traveled to Louisville for rallies, events and causes to push for racial equality.
King's brother, Rev. A.D. Williams King, was a prominent religious and civil rights leader in Louisville, and the two often rallied and marched together.
In late 2019, the Rev. Charles Elliott Jr., who has been a pastor at Louisville's King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church since 1961, told The Courier Journal that King often came to Louisville to participate in open-housing demonstrations.
He recounted one particularly harrowing experience:
"Dr. King came and marched with us in the South End. There was a line of white people with sticks and rocks and things," Elliott previously said. “Dr. King said, ‘Brethren we're going to have to get out of this car and meet our brothers and sisters. We do not want to walk with fear.'"
"My knees were knocking. This boy about 12 or 13 took a rock," and threw it. "Dr. King bent down and got that rock and held it in front of them and began talking about love and what he was going to build on that rock," Elliott said previously.
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King's assassination in 1968 was a turning point for Elliott; it changed how he has preached to his congregations to this today. In 2018, Elliott received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Award and was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 2012.
This month for Martin Luther King Day, we look back at King's lasting legacy in Louisville in these historic images.
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