‘Let Dr. King live in your life!’ Syracuse solemnly remembers civil rights leader after his assassination

A Black letter carrier, Cecil Cooper, walked into the office of the Syracuse Herald-Journal on the morning of April 5, 1968.

He did not have any mail to deliver that day, just a message. An appeal he hoped the entire city would hear.

The evening before, civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee…

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