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MLK Jr. " “The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man"
http://www.dailynews.com/lifestyle/20160117/reporter-recalls-covering-martin-luther-king-jr-and-family-in-new-memoirReporter recalls covering Martin Luther King Jr. and family in new memoir
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More than any other man, King was the voice of the Movement. Yet, in the heyday of the ‘60s, a great many others helped change America. Too little credit is given to the women who were crucial in the fight to end segregation, as were the many capable young black ministers who worked with King.
After King was killed, two of his trusted friends, Harry Belafonte, the singer and activist, and Stanley Levison, a white lawyer and longtime adviser to King, wrote, “Under his leadership millions of black Americans emerged from spiritual imprisonment, from fear, from apathy, and took to the streets to proclaim their freedom.”
Those words echoed what King himself once said: “The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man. The greatness of this period was that we armed ourselves with dignity and self-respect.”
After his death, some whites — and a few blacks — tried to transform him into merely a dreamer. King was a dreamer, all right, but he was also a revolutionary ....
After King was killed, two of his trusted friends, Harry Belafonte, the singer and activist, and Stanley Levison, a white lawyer and longtime adviser to King, wrote, “Under his leadership millions of black Americans emerged from spiritual imprisonment, from fear, from apathy, and took to the streets to proclaim their freedom.”
Those words echoed what King himself once said: “The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man. The greatness of this period was that we armed ourselves with dignity and self-respect.”
After his death, some whites — and a few blacks — tried to transform him into merely a dreamer. King was a dreamer, all right, but he was also a revolutionary ....
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"Those words echoed what King himself once said: “The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man. The greatness of this period was that we armed ourselves with dignity and self-respect.”
Such a wonderful amazing man.
Such a wonderful amazing man.