denise mcnare. 1964, the middle of his college er that s when the student nonviolent coordinate committee was getting geared up and doing so in atlanta. reverend al, fill in some of the wall paper of the time that surrounds the period that we re talking about here. first of all, you not only had the birmingham four that were bombed and killed. you had the march on washington, you had the killing of geffors. you had all of that. let me say this. i think i agree with both goldie and melissa. he had the right not to be involved. what he does not have the right to is rewrite history by saying that blacks were brainwashed by becoming democrats. because when blacks became democrats my parents were republicans. as i said, dr. king s family was. i m nine or ten years younger than mr. cain, and i joined the movement later on in the 60s