Fire destroys former home of Dr. Martin Luther King in Camden, New Jersey

BREAKING Fire destroys former home of Dr. Martin Luther King in Camden, New Jersey

Firefighters responded to the scene on the 700 block of Walnut Street just before 3 a.m. on Saturday morning.

Doctor King lived in the home in 1950 while he was a student at the now-closed Crozer Theological Seminary.The MLK House website says Dr. King slept, ate, prepared his messages, and plotted his first anti-discrimination lawsuit while living here.Copyright © 2023 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.

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