it hurts, it does hurt. i m not so much angry, i just feel like when is when will i feel important? when will i be important to you? and i m not looking for gratification, but i just feel like a child, you know? as a child how do we help our little girls feel like they re important? thank you for letting me share, it does help. thank you for your story. this feels like the public accommodations when you look at the old black-and-white videos. it was ignoring the person at the lunch counters, pretending they weren t there if not outright kicking them out. it feels like we re sort of back in a fight over whether or not black people will have full access to public spaces. i think that s right and i think, you know, it s important for us to acknowledge the way this makes us feel and the internalization that can happen,
i don t think you re ever prepared for something like that. and the night that the night before medgar was killed, we had a very teary conversation. and he told me, you take care of my children. i have done that, but i continue to carry his memory forth. i continue to do that to this day. i fight furiously so that he will be remembered for all he did and all he gave. sometimes people ask, what can i do, what can i do. voting is the fundamental right that generates all other rights. do you think that people have lost that message in the civil rights movement, they see the marches, they know the lunch counters. have people lost the zeal? the voting rights act has been gutted and we re sort of sitting here in suspended animation. i believe today that people are more aware of the need to
died this is one of the things we try to rez rukt in this issue, this idea that people would like to forget that martin luther king at his death was one of the more unpopular people in america. my question is was when it pivoted against vietnam, when he made militarism, was that the moment when a lot of white liberals and white democrats said, oh, this guy has gone too far. lunch counters are fine. don t question some of the great priorities of our democratic government? i think that was the largest piece of it, but it went before that when he came to fight for fair housing and when he went to the congress and asked for money to be spent. it was the first time he said money is going to have to be used to fix some of these evils. as soon as money came into the equation, opposition came. but the riverside speech where he came out against the war was when the media dropped him, when his close friends dropped him,
journalism and also for the african-american and the cause for human rights in america. martin luther king s strategy of nonviolent direct action inspired a wave of young activists to take up the cause. king was able to energize young ministers, young students. he set a tone of let s come out of these cathedrals, let s come out of these offices, and let s do something in the streets. beginning in february 1960, cities fromreensboro to nashville, black students sat down at lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. sit-ins introduced a new, more confrontational tactic to the movement that provoked white segregationists to violence.
journalism and also for the african-american and the cause for human rights in america. martin luther king s strategy of nonviolent direct action inspired a wave of young activists to take up the cause. king was able to energize young ministers, young students. he set a tone of let s come out of these cathedrals, let s come out of these offices, and let s do something in the streets. beginning in february 1960, in cities from greensboro to nashville, black students sat down at lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. sit-ins introduced a new, more confrontational tactic to the movement that provoked white segregationists to violence. then in may of 1961,