but dr. wilson told me you all had a choice and decided to do it out here anyway. that s a morehouse man talking. now think about it, for a black man in the 40s and the 50s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations large and small, the uncertainty that you could support a family, the gnawing doubts born of a jim crow culture that told you every day that somehow you were inferior, the temptation to shrink from the world, to accept your place, to avoid risks, to be afraid, that temptation was necessarily strong. and yet here under the tutelage of men like dr. mays, young martin learned to be unafraid and he in turn taught others to be unafraid, and over time he