| Show or 1140'15”4PNI"w-A4010vimirc0000-4- A4 Mainstream Acceptance Chips Away at King's Place in History Robert Anthony Watts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Ga — Growing up in suburban Atlanta Kenyatta ' Adeniya says young people were about one black figure who : taught towered above all the rest: Martin : Luther King Jr : But when he entered his sophomore year in high school Adeniya - began hearing about another black man Ile remembers listening to a song by the rap group Public Enemy and saying to himself "Who is this Malcolm?" Now in his second year at Georgia State University Adeniya reas cently led a series of president of the Black Student Alliance The says he still respects King But Malcolm X he insists is the voice of the young generation "Malcolm can relate more to the community now" Adeniya said "The youth are less willing to actually bow down and let somebody hit them over the head We come with more of the philoshit you ophy of 'You hit me sit-in- s I back' Nearly 25 !years after King's assassination and nearly 10 years after Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating Monday's King leader is Holiday the settling into mainstream American history All 50 states will observe the King Holiday this year New Hampshire became the last state to take action when its governor last week ordered the state's Civil Rights Day renamed Martin Luther King Civil Rights Day Children across the nation also study civil-righ- ts King in school But on the streets of inner cities and on college campuses Malcolm X the outspoken black Muslim leader is the icon now invoked by young blacks Young people who hadn't heard of Malcolm X a few years ago now are wearing "X" hats and clothing which multiplied with the release of Spike Lee's recent movie But the move away from King began long before the film came out Donald Bakeer a high school English teacher in South Central Los Angeles saw a change beginning in the Since the late 10s Bakeer had delivered a rendition of Kings "I Have a Dream" speech at a school assembly every year to commemorate the slain leader's birthday mid-1980- s 0 PRESS ATLANTA — Still as a statue Bob Moses doesn't smile at pleas- antries and introductions As he waits on the dais to speak at an education conference his head could be a bust of one of the ancient philosophers: deep eyes facing straight ahead but focused elsewhere a close gray beard a thinker's broad forehead The conference emcee explains Moses is here to discuss "his secs ond chapter in work" a math curriculum he's devised to help poor students open an educational "gate" Chapter One involved his being beaten and jailed while working to dismantle Mississippi segregation in the civil-right- - - 1960s Asked to stand he does but the applause doesn't seem to intrude on his thoughts It may be a new 1 I i chapter but it's the old enigma of Robert Parris Moses Now 57 Moses earned philosophy degrees in college and then after quietly teaching for a few years in his native New York 1 -- t ' t r Algrio TA' g -- II- 1 rf i- - - k '':-4°- 1 - ' - ''': ' ( ° ': 4 V -- : ''' ''''' '' F" - ik - - i Itc - Tr 1t 16htlit 1 i - - '0 Npa 4!-- -' ts :(” r : t - A 17' I :' - '- - '- 40 k 3 -- ' i I -- - - '14°' t : '::' r J P 17by lil'il -- it- deoir: i! -- p 04000-r-4- ii 7 ' alr' - os:iltit rf:' '' lie?-- honor King's accomplishments but also serves in some places as an annual retrospective on the issue of civil rights throughout the country But the Rev Jesse Jackson once a close King aide said the thrust of the holiday was always more encompassing than just celebrating the man for which it was named "By definition it's not just a time to revere him It's a time to reflect on our struggle" King's widow Coretta Scott King agreed "The holiday demonstrates to people what the legacy was about and how one should commemorate the life of a great American who changed the direction of this 71 q"' ''4 Now the yearly rite has in some places not only become a time to 41 '': ' struggle ' -- :-- V' - Ntlf : '''' ' -- 0---- - - i -- 1 - s:r:' el- - Associated Press "Malcolm can relate more to the community now youth are less willing to actually bow down and let somebody hit them over the head We come with more of the philosophy of 'You hit me I'll hit you The back'" —Kenyatta Adeniya criticize King and the movement as passive are misinformed "1 never told anyone that if the Klan came to my house to attack my family that I would take my family out in my arms to give them to the Klan to beat them up never said that nor did Martin nothing to the whites when they hit you that was wrong You should defend yourself" Some scholars and activists say young people are misinformed about King and fail to appreciate how radical it was to challenge segregation in the South in the 1950s and 1960s They say King's image has been defined exclusively by that August 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech which included a vision of brotherhood in which black and white children sit down together in harmony David J Garrow the author of Bearing the Cross a Pulitzer biography of King said King became more radical after 1965 when he began turning his attention to poverty and despair in urban ghettoes of the North com"In most parisons King gets essentially trapped within the image of 1963 and the 'I Have a Dream speech" said Garrow "The King of 1966 to 1968 is a distinctly realmore outspoken ist about American society" Lowery said young people who Prize-winnin- civil-righ- say Lowery said s civil-right- King-Malcol- hard-eye- that" ts movement and The King — not Malcolm X — were responsible for getting the country to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Lowery said and both are responsible for the 7500 blacks who hold elected office now King's legacy is felt differently by Adeniya The college student recalls driving in his car after the Los Angeles riots and listening to Atlanta radio stations quoting King on nonviolence "A lot of youth are just tired of being drilled by Dr King because people try to use Dr King as a pacifier" he said "A lot of youth look back on Dr King's methods and they don't think they failed But they think they're outdated" g d Civil-right- Non-Viole- who were going to register" Moses was a founder of the Mi- "Along comes this guy who rejects all that model" Branch said referring to the bookish Moses "working quietly disappearing into the backwoods ignoring the trappings of leadership in dress and style ssissippi Freedom Democratic Party which challenged that state's delegation to the 1964 Democratic convention all-whi- Historian Taylor Branch whose Parting the Waters won 40 ri ' - ' -- '' f cip '4a 1 ' ' '06 FREE 34 FSTIMATES L — — — — a nlYI II 11 --- M i ' I ZAP?! 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---- N she said Joan Brown Campbell who is white and a member of the Martin Luther King Jr Federal Holiday Commission said the perception that King day is a holiday for blacks may be imbedded in the national conscience but does not seem to be an issue in celebrations in cities across the country "In local settings there is a fair amount of involvement of white people" said Campbell general secretary of the New National Council of Churches The commission set up in 1984 to administer the holiday with an annual $300000 federal appropriation monitors the celebrations around the country In Rhode Island organizers for jusconduct a tice exhibit which talks about the s movement and the involvement of the Jewish community and religious observances as Lacrisha Butler GANNE'FT - - “404490Aqtttg4M14'tfrt I - '41-p- P-jo ''7 -—- - V2- r By ON11 Work But It's Old Enigma of Bob Moses rrm:--tim-- 9 aA1 ----- -- --- Civil-Righ- ts '''''''':' l‘:-74:- : - ( y Civil-Righ- ts 14t 'N:t' S-- S Iiit4 c teen-ager- s EE - f3t 727173:-- - South-Centr- 1 ' --' Southern Christian Leadership Conference "It was relatively easy to be bad in Harlem — but try Selma" Lowery said "Try the country roads of Mississippi Try the jails in Birmingham" Mainstream acceptance seems to have taken the edge off King's place in history "King has become a national symbol And you can't become a national symbol and speak for those who are left out" said James Cone a professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York and author of Martin and Malcolm and America a book that compares the philosophies of the two men Los Angeles In the site of the 1992 spring riots a total commitment to nonviolence strikes many young people especially males as impractical said Deric Tucker "If somebody does something to you and you don't do anything back that makes things worse" Tucker said "Because they know they can do this to them or that to them and that's worst in the long run and you'll end up dead" Many of his friends are instantly attracted to the phrase used by Malcolm "by any means necessary" Tucker said He said young blacks in South Central use that phrase to mean "you'll do anything to get what you want" burIn Atlanta where King ied and where the Martin Luther King Jr Center for Nonviolent Social Change draws about 3 million visitors a year who know little else about King react strongly to his stance against violence Walking home in his Los Angeles Raiders jacket on a recent afternoon Mario Berry said he didn't know a lot about King But he said "The speech he made about don't do E '''''' !snow ' NLIND 17:114Et 1 1 '9144 -"I' ::1---- - I E Iv't "---- earned something seemingly incongruous: a reputation as frontline worker for the rights of fellow blacks in the Deep South — tireless selfless fearless "He didn't have no rabbit in him" recalled Curtis Dawson a black farmer who accepted Moses' challenge to register to vote in Liberty Miss in 1961 then watched as Moses was beaten with a knife butt by one of a group of white men who intercepted them outside the courthouse "He didn't back up after this happened" said Dawson now 80 in a telephone interview "We went on into the courthouse" Moses put the story in context speaking in his soft monotone: "You would go through different levels of harassment If they could do it with the county patrolman as sort of the first line of defense if they could harass you and stop you from coming they would do that" he said The second line of defense was Christopher Sullivan THE ASSOCIATED 00"0- 4'44 ' d black-andgra- King's Birthday Is America's Chance To Celebrate Struggle - co" 114-r 4 4 0- xis cIH9 civil-right- It May Be New Chapter in By - : man who was somehow less courageous than Malcolm X rankles his associates Malcolm X didn't participate in s demonstrations in the South a fact obviously in the mind of the Rev Joseph Lowery of Atlanta a veteran of the movement who heads the King-founde- Sunday January 17 1993 s About eight years ago he noticed the speech no longer resonated among the students who would fidget and talk throughout "They just could not relate to Martin Luther King's struggle" Bakeer said "It became something that was in the distant past to them He became an old people's symbol" The image of King as a docile King Not Malcolm X Protested in the South - NATION The Salt Lake Tribune oli"lielerVW i (q it 'i 0'"i 'VI 25TA INSTRUCTORS: DENNIS REMINGTON MD GARTH FISHER PhD EDWARD PARENT PhD EMZBARA Vvr HIGA R and STAFF a t $11 ! )11i OP - i T — |
