Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Why We Can't Wait is Martin Luther King Jr.'s second book. His first book Stride Toward Freedom follows his work with the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This book is about his perspective of 1963 in Birmingham. That's the year King led the civil rights movement (he calls it the "Negro Revolution") which would end blatant segregation--as in take down the signs saying no colored people, let black people sit at the lunch counters, integrate the schools. What I love so much about this book is his insistence on now. Not later, not in due time. Change it now. And this timing he's talking about in Why We Can't Wait is specifically about when the protests would start. They pushed back the date a couple times and then got it started even tho the new timing wasn't something everyone liked. It was right after an election and right before Easter. But that timing mattered to King because they needed to push the new guy in their direction and they needed stores to feel pressured to make sales f

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