Paulette perry biography of martin luther king
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Paulette Fair Oral History Interview
Fair: But I will let him tell you all the little details in that story...
Scarpino: So, what I do want you to tell me though is how did the idea for the Kheprw Institute come about? How did you get this thing started?
Fair: So, now here we are, we’re both working in this very large warehouse and the lobby in the warehouse is maybe two times the size of this whole first floor. It’s this huge lobby, and he knew that he had to bring his son to work with him every day that summer to work on algebra. Pambana, his wife, was not having this kid have a summer vacation away from algebra, and my grandson was coming. My grandson’s mom and my son had said that he could come and spend the summer because he usually spent the summer. This particular time, now he’s 13-years old, he’s too old to go to StarPoint over at the Children’s Museum orstay in daycare, where I used to have him with a friend of mine who had this wonderful huge daycare that I used to put him in. Now he’s 13, no more daycare, no more StarPoint. I told Im, I says, “Well, I’ve got to do something with Turner.” My grandson’s name is Turner Fair, and so we called him Tano because Tano is Swahili for five
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Martin Luther King, Jr. spent the final summer of his life articulating a way to move the United States from civil rights to human rights, a project that found him criticized from across the political spectrum. Fifty years later, King’s anguished attempt to navigate the complex racial politics of the Summer of Love illustrates many contemporary challenges facing progressives and radicals in the 21st century.
In popular memory, Martin Luther King largely operates on the level of myth, often appearing as a hallowed character in various tales of turmoil and triumph. Indeed, historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall laments the dominant image of MLK—“frozen in 1963”—dreaming endlessly of an America where individuals are judged not “by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Yet in my experience with college students in Chicago and Birmingham, race and ideology continue to influence how Americans interpret King. While racists continue to attack him and his legacy, it is now difficult to find critics of the man in polite circles. Indeed, like other folk heroes and founding fathers, there appears to be a King for everybody. Moderates celebrate his patriotism, piety, and non-violence. Progressives revel in their inside knowledge that the real King was much more milit