Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.

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Brenda Ballou Dabney’s grandmother’s home appears in “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guidebook for black people traveling the United States that listed businesses that were relatively friendly to African Americans, in a time when they were regularly denied service, or worse, while traveling. “(Victor Green) would put them in this book, advertise them, then the motorist would have places they knew were safe and clean places to stay,” Dabney said.

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    Brenda Ballou Dabney believes the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is just as important today, as it was in 1968, at the end of his life.     “He had a lot of strength in him,”…

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