From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Boyle, Kevin, Amnesty International
Kevin Boyle Reads From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson
A few months before he was murdered in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to speak in a well-to-do suburb near my family home in Detroit. As he arrived at the rally, he was met by a phalanx of 300 right-wing protesters who objected to having such a dangerous subversive in their midst. Inside the high school auditorium, hecklers spread themselves through the stands. As King tried to deliver his address, they shouted him down, screaming, "Commie!" and "Traitor!" with a venom so great King could barely get through his text.
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Publication information:
Article title: From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice.
Contributors: Boyle, Kevin - Author.
Magazine title: Amnesty International.
Volume: 33.
Issue: 1
Publication date: Spring 2007.
Page number: 21.
© Amnesty International USA Winter 2008.
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