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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:22 AM Aug 2013

Today we're celebrating 50th Anniversary of the MLK Jr's March on Washington

MLK Jr. has always made me feel proud to be an American. I feel honored to share a Citizenship of this great country with him because he represents the very best in human nature which he drew it out of us when we didn't even know we had it.

This is a drawing I did of him which I usually post on DU on his birthday every year.

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Today we're celebrating 50th Anniversary of the MLK Jr's March on Washington (Original Post) lunatica Aug 2013 OP
very nice! bigtree Aug 2013 #1
Absolutely beautiful Peacetrain Aug 2013 #2
While I don't remember the March, three years old at the time. whistler162 Aug 2013 #3
I was 16 years old and will never forget those times lunatica Aug 2013 #4
kick lunatica Aug 2013 #5
K&R freshwest Aug 2013 #6
 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
3. While I don't remember the March, three years old at the time.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:32 AM
Aug 2013

I remember after Dr. King's assassination the pastor of the Presbyterian church we where going to had been to the March and did a slide show of the March as a kind of remembrance.

Alot has changed but alot more needs to change. Easier for multi-racial couples these days. I look at the mixed race couple my Mom did work for back in the 60's and the problems they would have faced and the problems there children faced versus today and I see a difference.

By the way I am white

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. I was 16 years old and will never forget those times
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:08 PM
Aug 2013

I was living in another country but the Civil Rights movement was watched world wide. The ugly truth of Southern racism exploded with Rosa Parks' refusing to go to the back of the bus. History shows the Civil Rights activists were prepared for just such an action to take place. Something that would spark the blaze. Rosa Parks was part of that group but her protest was not staged or meant to be the catalyst.

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