platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. i'm also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. he was helping tennessee garbage workers when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember i was back in the those days. i left georgia for college and the navy. when i came home from submarine duty, i was put on the board of education. i suggested to the other members that we visit all the schools in the county. they had never done this before, and they were reluctant to go with me. but we finally did it. and we found that white children had three nice brick buildings,

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