April 4 th , 2018 marks the 50 th Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The news of King's murder reverberated around the world, but the loss for students, parents, and staff at Williston Senior High School in Wilmington was particularly wrenching. Dr. King had planned to make a speech at the only all-black high school in the segregated New Hanover County School system but instead he chose to stay in Tennessee to support a sanitation workers strike. The Reverend who