Memphis civil rights advocate Clara Ester dies at 78

student was at the Lorraine Motel for dinner when she saw King chatting on the balcony. After hearing a gunfire blast, she ran to King, tried to loosen his belt and asked for towels to help stop the bleeding.

Ester later moved to Mobile, Alabama, and spent decades serving as a neighborhood organizer and executive director at the Dumas Wesley Community continue reading …