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Article: Selma nun recalls Dr. King's legacy.(NATION)(Ebo remembers Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 25, 2008
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It has been more than 45 years since Sr. Antona Ebo became the first African-American nun to take part in the historic voting rights demonstrations and marches in Selma, Ala. But Ebo, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, now 83 and battling lymphoma, has lost none of her zeal. She seemed to be almost channeling Dr. Martin Luther King in her impassioned, wide-ranging talk at the Chicago Theological Union Jan. 9. "Why do they tell us to keep the dream alive?" she asked. "That was Martin's dream, for his time. Where are the dreams now, where are the dreamers for today? He told us we'd waited too long. Well, we're still waiting."
Ebo's talk was part of a ...
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