As the 50th anniversary of King's April 4, 1968, assassination approaches, civil rights legend Bernard Lafayette Jr., friend and associate of Martin Luther King Jr., longtime educator and proponent of nonviolent social change, and college classmate of U.S. Congressman discusses the early days of the movement – and his lifelong commitment to social change through nonviolent protest.

This is an audio version of a broadcast of the Story in the Public Square TV and Sirius/XM Satellite radio program, recorded in the studios of Rhode Island PBS and hosted by me, G. Wayne Miller, and Jim Ludes of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. Story in the Public Square is a partnership of the Pell Center and The Providence Journal. For more, visit providencejournal.com