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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
John W. Gardner's Address at Stanford's 100th Commencement Ceremony
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Highlander was integrated, pro-union, committed to nonviolent resistance, and often accused of being “communist.” As time unfolded, the center of gravity of social movement shifted, and Highlander maintained itself as a space that allowed integrated meetings to take place—a rarity in the South—and became a site for developing strategies for the fre
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King had a gift. He talked about what he believed. And his words had the power to inspire: “I believe.” “I believe.”
Sinek, Simon • Start With Why: The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose
representative of black freedom.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
How long? Not long! Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. How long? Not long! Because mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
His message focused on the urgency of a radical change in the inner attitude of the people. He recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them. “To revile because one has been re
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