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=====How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause===== | =====How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause===== | ||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/books/review/kennedy-and-king-steven-levingston.html by James Goodman 29/6/17 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/books/review/kennedy-and-king-steven-levingston.html by James Goodman 29/6/17 The New York Times] | ||
Early in this absorbing history, Steven Levingston tells the story of John F. Kennedy’s telephone call to one Coretta Scott King two weeks before the 1960 presidential election. Her husband had been arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta department store, and then, after all those arrested with him were released, held for violating the terms of his “probation” for an earlier traffic violation: driving (while black) with an expired license. | Early in this absorbing history, Steven Levingston tells the story of John F. Kennedy’s telephone call to one Coretta Scott King two weeks before the 1960 presidential election. Her husband had been arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta department store, and then, after all those arrested with him were released, held for violating the terms of his “probation” for an earlier traffic violation: driving (while black) with an expired license. | ||
=====Martin Luther King is not your mascot===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2024/01/14/1224059925/martin-luther-king-day-legacy by Leah Donnella 14/1/24 npr] | |||
One cold January evening about 10 years ago, I was walking in Philadelphia, when a stranger called out to me from across the narrow street. "Hey," he said, "Can I get your number?" I smiled politely and kept walking, but he gave it one more shot. "C'mon — it's what Dr. King would've wanted!" And that is how I met the love of my life. | |||
