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On Tuesday, March 19, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a number of his aides came to Batesville to enlist participants in a planned Washington camp-in. While in Batesville, Dr. King spoke at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church to explain how the march on Washington was designed to bring awareness to the working and living conditions of underprivileged Americans and demand that the federal government seek to improve those conditions. Dr. King was assassinated two weeks later in Memphis, Tennessee.
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| HM Number | HM1LQ1 |
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| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 2013 |
| Placed By | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, July 12th, 2015 at 10:02am PDT -07:00 |
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| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16S E 227691 N 3802023 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 34.32376667, -89.95951667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 34° 19.426', W 89° 57.571' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 34° 19' 25.56" N, 89° 57' 34.26" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 662, 601 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling North |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 100-102 Hoskins Rd, Batesville MS 38606, US |
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