Martin Luther King Jr. had a lot on his mind when he visited Beaufort County in May of 1967.
It was his fourth trip to the secluded campus of the Penn Center on St. Helena Island, where he and his top aides in the civil rights movement could regroup, recharge, argue, sing and plan.
King knew at that time – about a year before he was murdered – that the road to what he called a beloved community would be a long slog…