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After returning home and putting the food away, our mother instructed [my sister and I] to change out of our play clothes and into our school clothes.

We had been kept out of school because Tuesday, April 9, 1968 was the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral. Oddly enough, he was being buried on the same day that General [Robert E.] Lee had surrendered to General [Ulysses S.] Grant at Appomattox over a hundred years earlier.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. was a reminder that the Civil War was still raging. My sisters and I had found two bodies in the street but had never been to an actual funeral.

Although the event was only televised, our parents insisted we had to wear our best clothes. After seeing us in our school clothes, our mother decided they were not good enough.

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