His Movement Occupied America

The world is honoring Atlanta's own Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,—who attended in the greater Cascade Patch area—with the official dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial today.

The ceremony was originally set for Aug. 28, the 48th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech but was postponed because of Hurricane Irene.

, spent his childhood on Atlanta's southside. King studied at the Atlanta University Lab School (now on the campus of Clark-Atlanta University) and, then, Washington high school before enrolling at Morehouse College at age 15.

King's youngest lieutenant at the time was , a long-time Cascade Heights resident. Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington and is known its the last surviving speaker.

"He made me a different person," Lewis said this morning on CNN's State of the Union. "And today I can say I don't have any bitter feelings or have any anger or hatred (toward) human beings.”

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