COLUMBIA, S.C. — The rally in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of South Carolina’s Capitol was solemn, with speaker after speaker invoking his courage and vision. But this city’s mayor could not help but turn his eye from the past to the future for just a moment.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The rally in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of South Carolina’s Capitol was solemn, with speaker after speaker invoking his courage and vision. But this city’s mayor could not help but turn his eye from the past to the future for just a moment.
“The road to the White House starts in South Carolina,” Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia happily decreed Monday, as two likely candidates, waiting their chance to speak, sat behind him in silent testimony.
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