It will be then truly the land of the free and the home of the brave.Radio announcer: You have just heard the pre-recorded broadcast of a talk given last spring by Dr. Martin Luther King, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his talk, given at The New School For Social Research, was entitled “The Summer of Our Discontent.” This is Les Black inviting you to tune in every Tuesday and Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock for the Lecture Hall and reminding you to keep your FM dial set at 89.5 megacycles for educational radio in Amherst, WAMF, the voice of the students of Amherst College. And the Negro saw that by proving the sweeping and majestic power of nonviolence to bring about the beloved community, it might be possible for him to set an example to a whole world caught up in conflict.In the entire country there was no place to compare with Birmingham, Alabama. To support their advocacy of violence and its incitement, they pointed to an historical tradition reaching back from the American Civil War to Spartacus in Rome.
0000006530 00000 n dinsic.es También encontraemos la traducción del texto original caalà al catellano y al inglés, así como una transripción fontética del texto oriinal. Faith in this method had come to maturity in Birmingham. The Negro knew all too well that there was not in existence the kind of vigorous retraining program that could readily help him to grapple with the magnitude of his problem.The symbol of the job beyond the great wall was construction work. Yet his plan was doomed because an exodus to Africa in the twentieth century by a people who had struck roots for three and a half centuries in the New World did not have the ring of progress.With the death of the Garvey movement, the way opened for the development of a doctrine which held the center of the stage for almost thirty years. A nonviolent army has a magnificent universal quality. Leaders indulge in bombast if they do not take all circumstances into account before calling upon their people to make a maximum sacrifice. In his eyes, the doctrine of legal change had become the doctrine of slow token change and, as a sole weapon of struggle, now proved its unsuitability. The Negro felt that he recognized the same old bone that had been tossed to him in the past – only now it was being handed to him on a platter, with courtesy.The administration had fashioned its primary approach to discrimination in the South around a series of lawsuits chiefly designed to protect the right to vote. Information about B. The justification for risking the annihilation of the human race was always expressed in terms of America’s willingness to go to any lengths to preserve freedom. 0000000874 00000 n America awaited a quiet summer. To join an army that trains its adherents in the methods of violence, you must be of a certain age. But this was still in the future.No discussion of the influences that bore on the thinking of the Negro in 1963 would be complete without some attention to the relationship of this revolution to international events. There are even some Negroes who will go over to the other side. He knew that by 1963 more than thirty-four African nations had risen from colonial bondage. The American Negro saw, in the land from which he had been snatched and thrown into slavery, a great pageant of political progress. 0000002631 00000 n The words of the Constitution had declared them free, but life had told them that they were a twice-burdened people – they lived in the lowest stratum of society and within it they were additionally imprisoned by a caste of color.For decades the long and winding trails led to dead ends. At the time of this growing realization, during the mid-fifties, Negroes were in the grip of a crisis. %PDF-1.4 %���� For in a day when Sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. The transcription is derived using international phonetic alphabets (IPAs). In short, if this problem is to be solved, there must be a sort of divine discontent, and a determination on the part of people of good will to work passionately and unrelentingly to see that the dignity and worth of the human personality will be respected.
This was the doctrine, consistently championed and ably conducted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that placed its reliance on the Constitution and the federal law. There are Negroes who seek profit for themselves alone from the struggle. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Certainly the first response should be the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. In the Congress, reactionary Republicans were still doing business with the Dixiecrats, and the feeling was growing among Negroes that the administration had oversimplified and underestimated the civil rights issue. I feel that it would better to have no bill than to have a bill devoid of the public accommodations section and F.E.P.C.