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Show Mrs. King incre Black understa; Corelta Kings speech as We thearnclcslhavereadarein ' s.ve because I feel lhalIknffl understand tlie Negro I iiv,d the south most of m ' even in Urc last ,0 y ; vsitcd and kept in contact ,. the many changes llnat have ink' place. To know the Neero in ,h south 40 years ago "when b" King was a child one could as sec that she is an ouistandi-' member of her race. She is jt." cribed as a bright and agsiesn child and one who tried To exc-in exc-in everything she did. Shchadth desire to better her condition ar, to earn a living for herself. It w stated that her Tamily had bee landowners since the Civil ft and her father was a store pr,. prictor. At this time, a black main ma-in the south in llm nii , above the average. When I read her background sec why Mrs. King has accw plished a great deal in her E Every step of the way her dete-ruination dete-ruination to make something i-herself i-herself is evident and she was nc afraid to tackle any situation iL was a means toward bctterir. herself. This is commendable, bt we must realize llial others of th black race who have not sit cceded as she has in life must no blame il on conditions entire!) but also on Iheir own person;: desires and ambitions. The Negroes as I know liter are a dependent race. They aii not aggressive, nor are they industrious. indus-trious. I do not feci this can b. blamed on conditions wide which they lived. They have con:, a long way since they came oie as slaves and most of this has bee: due to the help, aid and educalioi j they have received as they lived a-: pait of a family. There is n.j doubt that there was a great fc , of abuse and misuse of slaves ; their labor was necessary to tit economy of Die south andinmos: cases they were used for ill-purpose ill-purpose . Mrs. King described tlie hardships hard-ships of the Negro in eras: The er of slavery, the era of disc nation and now the era of reu-lution reu-lution beginning 1 5 years ago 1 Montgomery with thebusp Since Montgomery she states tithe ti-the Negro has more ai' his personal worth and a sense " dignity. I hope diis will eve. evolve. For some it may ' but I have known many sense of personal r ; dignity and they Have n,a 1 it.Thenewge,ieralioi; revolutionary ideas ,n lhcm by members of race is very insecure. lheir ideas and actions t " nothing in their act J complemented lief in personal worthy thai she claims. To r gained through sucu Slcsandocconjjh only success .1. revolutionaries l"u through handout- The triple evils 0 1 expressed boihy |
