Jan. 18, 2010 at 6:44pm with 1,689 notes
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King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
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Give it up for a man who knew what was ahead of him, and faced it anyways.
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I read ‘A Letter from Birmingham Jail’...this incident. Upon seeing this post,...
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