Dr King had crossed a line in Memphis, as he had exactly one year earlier at Riverside Church in New York City, where he’d defied many of his supporters and even some in his innermost circle by going ‘off topic’ from a strict civil rights agenda to include indictments against the United States of America for its conspiracies with poverty and violence – in particular, its prosecution of a war in Vietnam. And his death must have seemed as inevitable to him at that turbulent moment as it was to most of the nation, though so many of its citizens were hoping, praying otherwise. He’d gone there to speak and show solidarity with the striking garbage workers of that inflamed city. I was a boy of seven living in Atlanta in 1968 when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee. From leaning from Leadbelly, giving Bob Dylan his first break, marching with Martin Luther King Jr and beyond… In 2010, for the 200th edition of MOJO Magazine, singer-songwriter and producer Joe Henry sat down with Harry Belafonte to discuss one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th Century.
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