Article: They Still Have a Dream.(Virginia Beach Beacon)

Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from his "I Have a Dream" speech Aug. 28, 1963

BY GARY RUEGSEGGER

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

Celestyne Diggs Porter probably was the first local resident to spend much time with Martin Luther King Jr.

She baby-sat the future civil rights leader when he was 6 months old.

"Sweetie Cakes, I fed that baby, changed his diapers, and laundered those same diapers," said Porter, a 93-year-old longtime Norfolk educator.

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