Thats why I was impressed when I took a preview tour of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the new museum in Atlanta. I was struck by how relevant the curators made the movement seem today. They tied it to human rights struggles all over the planet: the movement to abolish child labor, the Arab Spring uprising, the campaign to stop the rape of women in the Congo. At the end of my tour, I saw a handwritten manuscript of Kings 1967 speech opposing the Vietnam War. King was roundly criticized by black and white leaders for the speech, but I noticed that he was apparently prepared. In the margins of his speech, King wrote in his sloping cursive: I refuse to play it safe. Neither should we when we talk about the movement.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 07:35:32 +0000
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