I had never seen this one before. Young MLK, May 1956
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I had never seen this one before. Young MLK, May 1956
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Yes, he’s young, in his 20s and fresh out of the seminary, but at this point MLK was already the face of the Montgomery bus boycott (Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956). He took point mostly because older and more well known ministers were happy to let him. It was a dangerous job. His house was firebombed, and he was indicted for conspiring to interfere with a business. He was ordered to pay a fine or go to jail for 386 days and chose jail as an act of protest, which brought even more attention to the boycott. He was released after two weeks.
Even after the boycott ended, the violence continued. Two days after the inauguration of desegregated seating, someone fired a shotgun through the front door of Martin Luther King’s home. King of course was not the only target of violence or retaliation; Rosa Parks and her husband moved out of Montgomery due to death threats and blacklisting. Churches were bombed and people were shot; no white person was convicted. Segregation in every other area continued and was strengthened.
King continued to lead protests and was shot in 1968 at age 39, still pretty young.
He was incredibly short but slang a lot of chicks.
For some reason I want someone to photoshop a large fish for him to hold.
He was in his 30s when he was killed, the dude was always young because he didn’t get to grow old!
there hasn’t been an album yet that touches this “about to drop”
Guess I’ll die
Young MLK sounds like his rap name.
And I bet he read every one of those books in that corner already by then.
There’s a book called, A first rate madness. It’s deals with the relationship between depression and great leadership. It was written by a psychiatrist, and looks at leaders who were forced into leadership positions often at the darkest times in history.
There is a great chapter on Dr. Martin Luther King and his battle with the ‘black dog of depression.’