Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. could have been a day of hope and affirmation. Instead, to millions of black and white Americans last week, it meant a renewal of anxiety. Little, after all, has been done since April 4, 1968, to extirpate racism or to clothe with reality King's dream of social justice. Even so, when brief flurries of violence roiled observances of King's death, they compared in no way to the hideous rioting that swept 168 U.S. communities last year...
...year since Martin Luther King Jr. died. Who speaks for the black American now? The question itself irritates Negroes. Who, they respond, speaks for the white American? Is it Richard Nixon, who gained the presidency with only 43.4% of the popular vote? George Wallace, who achieved more ballots than any other third-party candidate in the nation's history? If, as one magazine recently claimed, Singer James Brown, "Soul Brother No. 1," is the most powerful Afro-American, who is the most powerful Italian-American? Frank Sinatra...
...hope for such a new discrimination is not to deny Martin Luther King's pre-eminence as the genius of the civil rights movement. Despite the celebrity that surrounded him-and because of it-King's was the symbolic presence and voice of the black, of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, his inchoate rage distilled into visionary phrases: "I have a dream." There were other components in King's leadership: his unusual stature among whites (culminating in the Nobel Prize), the combination of his Southern rural style with Gandhian ideals, and an almost unassailable dignity respected...
...Martin Luther King said: "I don't think that anything can be more tragic in the civil rights movement than the attitude that the black man can solve his problems by himself." Indeed, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes and Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher could not have been elected without considerable white support. White cooperation is vital at every level of development, if only because no amount of incantation can change the basic ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. population...
Spiritual though his purpose is, Capon relishes the secular. He regards any meal as incomplete without a good wine. Would St. Paul, Calvin or Luther, he asks, have opened "bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before a service?" He dismisses synthetic foods as almost blasphemous and his gorge rises on the subject of dieting: "When you fast, fast; when you feast, feast." Neither prim nor prudish, he considers women, like pastries, a special delight: "A woman is like an aging strudel-not always crisp on the outside, but always good on the inside...