Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream" speech, presented so eloquently during the March on Washington, has gone largely unfulfilled as we look at America 50 years later. To be sure, “the shackles of segregation" in the South that King fought to destroy have been mostly broken, but economically we are still two nations. Far too many African Americans still live on what King called that day, “a lonely island of poverty in the midst of ...
- July 12, 2013Gary May connects the challenges faced by civil rights marchers in the 1960s with the challenges many voters are once again facing today.