Dr. Charles Steele met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a teenager

In Detroit
The national president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference told Innovation&Equity21 on the birthday of Dr. King that his cousin brought him to Cobo Arena and took him to the front of the hall specifically to meet the SCLC founder. "He said, 'This is my cousin from Tuscaloosa. One day he's going to have your job."