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““There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his element and totally in command of himself and the situation.””

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“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

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“So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.”

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“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from…

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“Life was not always so peaceful and rewarding at NAPA (the office). Sometime during 1968, I cam back to the office and found the…

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“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us…

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“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.”

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“The youth were to be trained to be the vanguard of the next battlefront, whatever that was. I knew within my heart that the…

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“Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on…

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“Organizing a working majority proved harder than we thought because we couldn't get a quorum. But one day in December, twelve people showed up,…

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“We were still confined to that corner. More and more people joined us, some black and some white. On the second day, we awoke…

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“I remembered how tough it was getting black people in large tenements to come together to build a playground. The enemy was not the…

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“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in Montgomery. I…

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“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

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