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News
King roommate, freedom fighter speaks to district
January 8, 2009
Patrick Bloodgood
Norfolk District Public Affairs
FORT NORFOLK, Va. — Few men or women can claim to have marched alongside the legendary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Even less men can claim to be a roommate of the slain civil rights leader and icon. Reverend Harold E. Pinkston Sr. can claim both.
Pinkston addressed approximately 100 district employees during the annual celebration and remembrance of King’s birthday Jan. 7, with the message of a dream dreamt and a dream realized.
Pinkston said, we need to stop fighting one another and start listening to one another in order to bridge the divisiveness that still exists today.
The civil rights freedom fighter recounted his time with Dr. King and discussed the 50-mile march that ended in Selma, Ala., where he was locked arm and arm with other civil rights leaders.