Push to preserve MLK's former Camden home gaining support

NJ.com. By Greg Adomaitis

...As concerned residents, local clergy, NAACP officials and more joined forces Monday morning with Congressman John Lewis and Rep. Donald Norcross, an excavator went to work tearing down one of the hundreds of properties the city has targeted in an effort to combat crime and blight.

..."This house stands as a link to Dr. King's life and legacy and preserving it will affirm his rightful place in Camden's history, and our country's history," Norcross said of the "non-distinct three-story row home" at 753 Walnut St. that King called home during the 1950s while studying at Crozer Theological Seminary, in Pennsylvania.

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