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Civil rights leader visits Camden to save MLK site

Activists trying to save a dilapidated Camden house where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived in 1950 have turned to a big name to help their cause.

Civil right icon and U. S. Rep. John Lewis is surrounded by admirers during his visit Monday to Walnut Street in Camden at the house where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived when he was a student at Crozer Theology Seminary in the 1950s.
Civil right icon and U. S. Rep. John Lewis is surrounded by admirers during his visit Monday to Walnut Street in Camden at the house where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived when he was a student at Crozer Theology Seminary in the 1950s.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
    by Melanie Burney, Staff Writer
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