World of Wellesley Celebrates MLK Day
Carole Simpson, a former network news anchor, described her personal encounter with the civil rights leader at WOW's 11th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.
On a day when Americans remember the bold words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Carole Simpson, a longtime ABC News reporter and the keynote speaker at the World of Wellesley’s 11th annual MLK Breakfast at Sun Life Fiancial, recalled the civil rights leader’s softer words — whispers, in fact — that changed her life more than 45 years ago. “I had only been reporting for a year,” said Simpson, who was then the first and only female broadcast journalist in her hometown Chicago, “when Dr. King held a news conference in Atlanta announcing he was bringing his non-violent crusade to Chicago — but he didn’t say why.” It was late 1965, and the inexperienced Simpson would not have been WCFL Radio’s usual choice to cover an event as significant as …
