"He ended the terror of living as a black person- especially in the south….[L]iving in the south (and in parts of the midwest and in many ghettos of the north) was living under terrorism. It wasn't that black people had to use a separate drinking fountain or couldn't sit at lunch counters- or had to sit in the back of the bus… It was that white people- mostly white men- occasionally went berserk- and grabbed random black people- usually men- and lynched them."
Daily Kos: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
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