Periodic Interest: In Memoriam.
In fact, for most people, and one did not have to know him, MLK was just a very nice, serious guy who, probably no matter how whites, nor anyone who disliked him, and no matter how intensely they believed themselves against him, resolute and all, he could make you stop and think about his issues and join in his marches. In my view, things really started getting better for the SCLC and his Ebenezer Baptist Church and other groups when his events and marches made national news with the authorities involved and all. One today might even accuse MLK of being somewhat conservative on some issues as he not only was in the company of LBJ, yes, and remember as well a number of the MLK events, including the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, march that made national news (in 1965?) received financial, moral and as time went on more public support from the Rockefeller family and the corresponding New York Commission on Human Rights at the time. MLK with family and associates met the Rockefellers officially at their Fifth Avenue home (a condominium / duplex unit) in the mid - 1960's as well. There was much more to this person that did not necessarily meet the eye as he had ties to a Gandhi society and the peace movement, and to others, very influential, who believed in his ideas and marches and the like. The thing that struck me as remarkable learning about him in gradeschool was this person who was supposed to be "underground" and the like, and there were many like him at the time, was wise and educated beyond the years of many. He went about things systemically and he knew what he did and was doing well despite the message of naysayers and destructive parties who were around or who lay in wait and in opposition -- all contrary to change and contrary to the facts of life as we all grew up to know them. We all gravely miss such people, the ways they give and gave hope, esteem and the prodigious things they do and did, the way at the time they held the fabric of society together.
In fact, for most people, and one did not have to know him, MLK was just a very nice, serious guy who, probably no matter how whites, nor anyone who disliked him, and no matter how intensely they believed themselves against him, resolute and all, he could make you stop and think about his issues and join in his marches. In my view, things really started getting better for the SCLC and his Ebenezer Baptist Church and other groups when his events and marches made national news with the authorities involved and all. One today might even accuse MLK of being somewhat conservative on some issues as he not only was in the company of LBJ, yes, and remember as well a number of the MLK events, including the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, march that made national news (in 1965?) received financial, moral and as time went on more public support from the Rockefeller family and the corresponding New York Commission on Human Rights at the time. MLK with family and associates met the Rockefellers officially at their Fifth Avenue home (a condominium / duplex unit) in the mid - 1960's as well. There was much more to this person that did not necessarily meet the eye as he had ties to a Gandhi society and the peace movement, and to others, very influential, who believed in his ideas and marches and the like. The thing that struck me as remarkable learning about him in gradeschool was this person who was supposed to be "underground" and the like, and there were many like him at the time, was wise and educated beyond the years of many. He went about things systemically and he knew what he did and was doing well despite the message of naysayers and destructive parties who were around or who lay in wait and in opposition -- all contrary to change and contrary to the facts of life as we all grew up to know them. We all gravely miss such people, the ways they give and gave hope, esteem and the prodigious things they do and did, the way at the time they held the fabric of society together.
