3 days in jail in 1961… ….‘made me a better person,’ MLK speaker says

Published 12:30 am Saturday, January 15, 2011

By Staff Reports

Hezekiah Watkins speaks during Friday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the AmeriCorps campus on Confederate Avenue.

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