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Day Three hundred and five: Tuesday 19th January 2021

Continuing yesterday’s theme while in Atlanta I was able to visit the tomb of Martin Luther King and the chapel where he used to preach. These places and the surrounding area including a museum and visitors centre have been made into a National Park. The museum is just one big eye opener and if you ever have the chance please visit it. You will see the joys and hopes of the human spirit and also the evil and cruelty that we can do to one another. It was a wonderful experience and may say a life changing experience and a reminder that when basically good people develop community blindness how easy it is for injustice to grow. It strikes me that in Martin Luther King’s time he was considered the most hated man in America, and yet all these years on, he is the only person not a President who has a National Holiday named after him. It is important to recognise that what he stood against and campaigned to change and died for is still an ongoing struggle; and his invitation to dream is still alive today.