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Activist recalls time on front lines with King, Jr.

Times photo: Anthony Wahl Civil Rights activist Charlie Workman visits Monticello High School students on Tuesday including one student who took video of his talk. Workman, a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., said of his time in the south, where he helped register black voters, thank God we are here but we still have a long way to go.

Times photo: Anthony Wahl Civil Rights activist Charlie Workman visits Monticello High School students on Tuesday including one student who took video of his talk. Workman, a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., said of his time in the south, where he helped register black voters, thank God we are here but we still have a long way to go.

Holly Ann Garey

Posted: March 30, 2011, 11:43 a.m.

MONTICELLO - Not many people can say they knew civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. on a personal level. However, the Rev. Charlie Workman can.

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