African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, center, leads unidentified members of the Patriotic Front, an alliance of black groups that support the ANC, into a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 13, 1994 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The group is meeting to discuss strategy for the upcoming April 27 national elections. (AP Photo/David Brauchli) Imagine for a second that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not assassinated in 1968 but was instead jailed by the federal government for treason. RELATED: Top 10 Nelson Mandela Quotes[1] With the United States coming apart at the seams with open racial conflict between the races, a crumbling economy, and stiff international economic sanctions at play, imagine that Dr. King won release from prison 27 years later. It would be 1995, and the United States turned to King, a recently released prisoner in fair health, to help reverse America’s path toward the brink of self-destruction. RELATED: A Timeline Of Nelson Mandela’s Life[2] Implausible, right? Could ...
