Redstone invites all to honor civil rights icon’s legacy

Several accomplished speakers took to the stage Jan. 11 at Marshall Space Flight Center to share how Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy helped shape their lives. The event was hosted by Marshall’s Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with the FBI and Army, in the center’s Activities Building 4316 as a way of honoring King, a minister and activist from Atlanta who rose to national prominence as a key figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King would have been 95 on Jan. 15.

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