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  • ...tax lawyers from Chicago. Robert Ming and Robert Leighton." One of them, I don't remember which one, was actually the lawyer for the Illinois Department o ...would just send it to him special delivery. We didn't have any internet, I don't even recall whether we had fax machines. But anyway, I knew what I would,
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  • ...six months old, and they began to talk and she asked about Coretta. And I don't know whether I was aware of it, and I'm sure he wasn't, but they both wen ...on't get mad with sick people and you don't get upset with them, they just don't know any better. They've been taught that they are better than you, but y
    149 KB (24,645 words) - 12:16, 31 January 2021
  • ...at there are other people you ought to talk to. In addition, I thought, we don't need to follow just ministers. It would be good if we follow some people ...ink we know fewer about what he had to face on a day by day basis. What we don't know is how small SNCC was- not SNCC, SCLC, which was his organization.
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  • ...nd of sweet. I said, "No, no, no. I don't belong to any of those things. I don't write for the Times." And then they said, "Well, what are you doing in Mo ...ed, black and white. That's all they wanted to show me. And we stayed... I don't know what I had to drink, it wasn't coffee. I went back to bed.
    120 KB (19,624 words) - 12:30, 31 January 2021
  • ...han if you've been Rochester, New York, for instance. So, in some sense, I don't know that he was thinking about that, but that's what I mean about, “I ...ry close to Lawndale. It was in East Garfield Park. It was not that far- I don't know, like ten minutes, maybe, from the apartment that Doctor King got. S
    175 KB (28,434 words) - 12:29, 31 January 2021
  • ...as much, but he was listening to you. That's what he was doing. He was- I don't think I said anything that he didn't hear and respond to in a meaningful ...ime. We all had the desire to change things as quickly as possible. Things don't change that fast?
    125 KB (19,884 words) - 12:37, 31 January 2021
  • ...there. I was a sixteen-year-old kid along with all the rest of them. And I don't remember officially when I met him. I know it was at one of the conferenc ...r- you know, "You don’t get it, girlfriend," and that kind of stuff. But I don't remember specifically him being talked about as depressed.
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  • ...nt in Boston." I said, “I'm getting ready to start one Doctor King.” So- I don't even know, he suspected that I was, you know, had some particular interes ...ember doing that sermon at, you know, C.L. Franklin's Church.” He said, "I don't remember it," but he was listening to it and it was, you know, on that pr
    166 KB (27,077 words) - 12:18, 31 January 2021
  • ...e don't want to flunk." That's the way he said it, when he was saying, "We don't want to fail in our projects." And I always felt like we are not called u ...ople generally do laugh when I say that now. And I think it's because they don't associate Martin Luther King with dating. But he was very human and not a
    69 KB (10,877 words) - 12:21, 31 January 2021
  • ...as wonderful, because that's what I thought he was, and proud to say so. I don't know anybody that disliked Daddy King. ...children. They were not the senior leadership of the business community. I don't know where they were from, but I could tell in their demeanor that they w
    62 KB (9,682 words) - 12:31, 31 January 2021
  • ...dparents when I would ask questions they would say, "Don't get in trouble. Don't get in the way." But I felt like Martin Luther King, Jr. was speaking dir ...and a little more, ‘cause if it hadn't been for Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't know what would have happened to me growing up very, very poor in rural A
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