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Alvin Dyer got his first Black history lesson riding in the back seat of his dad's car while touring Memphis, Tennessee, when he was just 10.

 
"That's the very spot where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated," Dyer's father told him and his older brother, pointing to the Lorraine Motel, where King was fatally shot on the balcony of his second-floor room in 1968. The civil rights activist was in town to support sanitation crews striking for better working conditions and higher wages. 
 
"It was a very sobering moment as I came . . .