April 4th, 2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The news of King's murder reverberated around the world, but the loss for students, parents, and staff at Williston Senior High School in Wilmington was particularly wrenching. Dr. King had planned to make a speech at the only all-black high school in the segregated New Hanover County School system but instead he chose to stay in Tennessee to support a sanitation workers strike. The Reverend who became known for his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech was pronounced dead at a Memphis hospital 7:05 that evening.
Bertha Boykin Todd served as the only Librarian of Williston Senior High School for 14 years, from 1954 until it closed the same year as Dr. King’s assassination. She remembers that day at Williston, and she is co-chair of the 50-year commemoration commission with District Attorney Ben David.
Guest:
Bertha Todd, Local Civil Rights Leader and Former Williston Librarian/Media Specialist
Information on the April 4th Commemoration
MLK & Wilmington 50 year Commemoration
April 4, 2018, 6:30 - 8 PM
Williston Middle School, 401 S. 10th Street
MLK
