in one time than on that glorious sunlit August
afternoon.
Let freedom ring . . . When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it
ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every
city, we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children --
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics --
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, --Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free
at last.--
Reportedly, Coretta King was furious in the aftermath of The Speech that
she was not allowed to accompany King to his meeting with President
Kennedy. I suspect that she had focussed her attentions upon an earlier
reference in The Speech to --little black boys and black girls will be
able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and
brothers-- and that her female nature -- typically and misguidedly --
believed this reference to black and white children had some analogous
application to black men and black women, white men and white women.
That is, if the Reverend Martin Luther King belonged in the Oval Office
that afternoon, so did his housewife).
Anyway, it di
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