platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. i'm also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. and was helping tennessee garbage workers, as you know, when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember how it was back in those days. i left georgia in 1943 for college and the navy. and when i came home from a submarine duty, i was put on the board of education. i suggested to the other members that we visit all the schools in the county. they had never done this before. and they were reluctant to go with me. but we finally did it. and we found that white children had three nice brick buildings.