Every year, Peggy Harrison-Jenkins and Vermelle Jones meet on King Street in Charleston to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the city’s annual parade.
And every year, they hold up the same framed photo of Dr. King in honor of his birthday.
“There was a store called Leon’s Five & Ten on King Street,” says Harrison-Jenkins. “And this is actually one of the pictures from that store in 1968.”
A lot has changed, the women say, since then…