Martin Luther King’s ‘dream’: Letting Freedom Ring From Stone Mountain, 60 Years Later

Chicago Tribune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mon, 08/28/2023 - 1:08pm

Nneka M. Okona | for the Chicago Tribune I was born in Atlanta during the evening hours on a Friday in late May. Days later, my parents brought me home, home to Stone Mountain. Since then, I’ve begrudgingly called this Atlanta suburb, born of red clay and granite, mine. From my hometown, the 825-foot-tall quartz monadnock for which our city is named looms in the distance, visible from most anywhere.

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