Brothers Kenny and Axel Dodson, who were in town visiting their father, were taking a stroll Thursday evening through the historic preservation district that includes the civil rights leader’s birth home when they saw another visitor pointing to a woman running away. He told them she had just tried to burn down the house on Auburn Avenue, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
“We didn’t expect anything like this,” Kenny Dodson said during a Saturday news conference to present them with the Outstanding Citizens Award.