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The War Is “Still” There:

The War Is Here: Bud Lee
Book Cover: The War Is Here | Bud Lee

I didn’t think I, or anyone who was in Newark during the 1967 Riot (as it was called then), needed a picture book in order to recall the images captured by Life photographer Bud Lee.

I was only seven years old; but I believed my memories of that unforgettable week still were just as vivid, and probably even more so than Lee’s photos would be.

It was actually the first time I’d heard the phrase, “The Cops are killing Black people.” And those aren’t words a seven year old little Black boy is likely to forget.

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Full Text: Letter from a Birmingham Jail, [MLK]

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

16 April 1963

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. Continue reading “Full Text: Letter from a Birmingham Jail, [MLK]”