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Article: PAINFUL STORY HELPS KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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PUEBLO - Middle school students at Cesar Chavez Academy were
quiet as Thomas Moore told them how his brother was killed by the Ku
Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
Moore, of Colorado Springs, said his talk on Martin Luther King
Jr. Day was meant to help keep alive the dream the civil rights
leader championed during his life.
Moore said he wanted students to "take the dream of Dr. King and
do something to better our condition."
Moore promised his mother he wouldn't go after the men who
kidnapped his brother and a friend, then beat them and dumped them
into the Mississippi River, weighted down and still alive.
But in 1998, when a black man was dragged to death behind a truck
in Texas, ...
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