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Interview: Greg Harris comments on memories of Martin Luther King Jr.

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From: NPR Special
Date: 20050117
Author:TONY COX

TONY COX
NPR Special
01-17-2005
Interview: Greg Harris comments on memories of Martin Luther King Jr.

Host: TONY COX
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

TONY COX, host:

Now for another reflection on Martin Luther King, Jr. Harlem trombone player Greg Harris has been performing at house concerts on the East Coast with other jazz musicians. During a recent performance in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Harris told a story from his boyhood in Hempstead, Long Island. It was the early 1960s when Reverend King came to Hempstead and Harris and other black children in the area went to see the preacher man.

Mr. GREG ...

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