“I may not be able to read or write—but I have the capacity to die!”
I come back to this famous photo, from 1960, of U.S. Marshals escorting Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. I come back to this photo after seeing documentary footage of Martin Luther King preaching, in April 1963, to black people in a church in Montgomery: You know when I say “Don’t be afraid,” you know what I really mean—don’t even be afraid to die! But I submit to you tonight, no man […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: Civil Rights Movement, courage, documentaries, Martin Luther King, New York Review of Books, poor doors, Ruby Bridges, Selma, speeches
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