At 92, Mattie Jones doesn’t need a history book to remember the civil rights movement. It lives in her Louisville, Kentucky, home, in her memories, and in the work she says is still not finished.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jones reflected on the moment that changed her life: meeting and organizing visits for Dr. King when he came to Louisville in the 1960s. It was an experience, she says turned a dream into a lifelong calling.
“I celebrate this day of a man who not only had a dream, but he put a dream into motion,” Jones said…