"I can say without reservation that he would be beaming. I am equally confident that he would not let the euphoria of the moment blind us to the unfinished business that lies ahead. And he would spell out those challenges in biblical terms: feed the hungry, clothe the naked and study war no more."
In The New York Times, Jesse Jackson ponders Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and Barack Obama's inaugaration.
And the BBC presents a 1964 clip of King predicting a future black president.
Monday, January 19, 2009
We'll Make the Dream Become a Reality
Labels:
1960s,
2000s,
civil rights movement,
MLK,
Obama,
political history,
politics,
social history,
television
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