Dr. Rodney Waller, the featured speaker at the 21st annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, compared the life of Dr. King to Joshua, who was chosen to lead the people of Israel when Moses died. The annual celebration is sponsored by the NAACP Middlesex County Branch, Unit 7091.
The following excerpts are from Dr. Waller’s address to those assembled at the American Legion Post 82 in Saluda on Monday, Jan. 19, to remember Dr. King.
When Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, “it was not simply the death of a man. It felt like the interruption of a movement,” said Dr. Waller. “For many, hope staggered, dreams trembled. The future felt uncertain.”
