Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators' cars, overturned 22 and dumped two more into a lagoon. At week's end, as 500 marchers returned to the neighborhood for another try, a mob of 7,000 whites taunted them with curses, threw volleys of rocks, bottles and eggs. Injured: March Leader Martin Luther King, who was struck on the head by a rock and was narrowly missed by a switchblade knife that was thrown at him but gashed the shoulder of another demonstrator instead. Said King: "I have to do this-to expose myself-to bring this hate into the open...
While being in touch would not assure New York or any city of trouble-free weeks ahead, it was a psychologically important part of the battle. Said Martin Luther King last week: "In Watts last year, I asked a rioter what he had gained from his smashing and looting and killing. He told me, 'We made them pay attention to us.' " Really paying attention means, as John Lindsay has shown, trying to do something about housing, sanitation, schools and jobs. Only through responsible and responsive public action to meet the Negroes' needs can white officialdom effectively inspire...
When Scandinavia-loving students at Wisconsin's Carroll College return to class this fall, they need not regret that their school has no classes in Norwegian. All they have to do is transfer temporarily to Luther College in Iowa, which has an excellent program in the language, pay not a penny more intuition-and get full credit at Carroll for work done. This free transfer of students will be the most immediately visible result of the newly formed Central States College Association-an educational combine of twelve Midwestern colleges that have agreed to pool their resources by coordinating classes...
...Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement's most eloquent apostle of nonviolence, and Floyd McKissick, an impassioned advocate of "Black power," linked arms last week at a Chicago rally to preach comity within the Negro movement. Both leaders agreed that the Negro could best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago...
...none of this. We have fought it too long. It is the ranging of race against race on the irrelevant basis of skin color. It is the father of hatred and the mother of violence. It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Martin Luther King announced that he would consider launching a wave of civil-disobedience demonstrations as an alternative to the violent tenets of the black-power movement, but he too warned that black power is "racism in reverse. The use of the phrase gives the feeling that Negroes can go it alone...