By Prensa Latina
Washington : US presidential hopefuls John McCain and Hillary Clinton traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to attend the ceremony on the 40th anniversary of the murder of civil rights fighter Martin Luther King.
The ex First Lady and Arizona senator said they would attend a ceremony at the place King was murdered in 1968 in Memphis as part of their vote hunt.
Meanwhile, Congressman Barack Obama, first black with solid opportunity to reach the White House, will speak in Indiana on Luther King’s political legacy.
McCain and Clinton have greater reasons to attend the peregrination: try to win over the important African-American vote through out the US, said analyst Michael Genovese.
Since the beginning of the primaries on January 2008, Obama has won 90 percent the black community vote that will also play a crucial role at the up coming polls in North Carolina and Indiana.
McCain has led a tough relations with African Americans after he fought a legislation in 1983 to set up a holiday to honor Martin Luther King.
Luther King was murdered April 4, 1968 in Memphis. James Earl Ray, an escaped white convict, was arrested for the crime and declared guilty. He was given 99 years in prison.
Luther King, 39, never gave up peaceful means as main tactic to promote the civil rights movement amid wide spread, deep rooted racism in the US.
Friday’s march is expected to gather nation wide community and church activists, unions, politicians and the general public.