In 1991 a black man named Rodney King was beaten unmercifully by white police of Los Angeles. Someone captured that crime on video-tape. The acquittal of the police set off a firestorm. On the other side, of that tragedy, Rodney King asked plaintively, "Can't we all Just get along?" That is America's greatest challenge. Can her majority and minority races accept each other as full partners in the American family? It is not only appropriate but indeed obligatory that we ask that question here in Memphis, the place where thirty years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sacrificed his life in the struggle of

African Americans for full inclusion. A new book has just come out related to Dr. King. This book, entitled "Dear Dr. King," was edited by Jan Colbert and Ann McMillan Harms. It contains let…