Civil rights vets: King memorial was long overdue
At age 93, famed preacher Gardner Taylor never thought he'd live to
see the day when his friend Martin Luther King Jr. would be honored with
a national memorial in Washington, D.C.
"I think it is singularly
appropriate and long overdue," said Taylor, who helped found the
Progressive National Baptist Convention to support "Mike," a nickname he
used for King.
"Mike King was minister and leader not only of black people," he said, "but he was leading the nation to what it ought to be."
