[Xmca-l] Re: April 3

[Ulvi İçil]

https://www.liberationnews.org/king-family-lawyer-fbi-and-hoover-killed-mlk-jr-without-a-doubt/



On 5 April 2018 at 07:26, Peg Griffin <Peg.Griffin@att.net> wrote:

> A picture is attached from our Library of Congress archive.
> In the twenties and thirties, the NAACP used a banner from its Fifth
> Avenue office window to spread the word of outside the south and outside
> the black community when lynchings took place:
> “A man was lynched yesterday.”
> Anyone have a Fifth Avenue window for hanging a banner: “The police shot
> an unarmed person yesterday.”
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@
> mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of mike cole
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2018 12:10 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] April 3
>
> For those of you who have never watched Martin Luther speak, I recommend
> that you check out the PBS news program that is playing tonight, the eve of
> his murder.
> It is called "The Road to Memphis."
>
> Particularly relevant to the conversation on activism here on xmca is his
> absolute refusal to allow those around him to carry weapons. The program
> gives you some idea of how he could live with the knowledge that he was
> publicly in one or more killers' sights as he spoke.
>
> Check it out. The impact of his words-as-spoken-in-context are even more
> powerful than their appearance in print in Peg's earlier note.
>
> mike
>
> mike
>