“Was the fulfillment of this dream for which he fought so tirelessly,
yet peacefully, and now had died for,” they ask, “simply ending
another tragic and sad day in history?”
The quilt’s visual narrative of Dr. King’s life unfolds this way:
“The little black square in the center of the block represents a little black baby. The surrounding small green triangles are its blanket. The next square of dull, drab green suggests its not too bright or glamorous future. The straight dark print pieces are the prison bars through which he looked on many occasions due to unscrupulous and fabricated charges. The raised slanted triangular pieces surrounded by black, the mountain of which he so often spoke, referring to the difficulty of the times in his prayers. The black print pieces behind the mountains
ominously foretell his death.