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Why We Can't Wait Mass market paperbound - 2000
by Martin Luther King; Afterword by Jesse Jackson
This paperback reissue of a classic not only examines King's Birmingham campaign for civil rights, but the history of the struggle and the tasks that await future generations fighting for equality. New Afterword by Rev. Jesse Jackson. Reissue.
Summary
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim…when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky…when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you…when…your wife and mother are never given the respected title ‘Mrs.’…when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”
Why We Can’t Wait
Martin Luther King’s Classic Exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement
“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim…when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky…when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you…when…your wife and mother are never given the respected title ‘Mrs.’…when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”
Why We Can’t Wait
Martin Luther King’s Classic Exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement
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- Title Why We Can't Wait
- Author Martin Luther King; Afterword by Jesse Jackson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-01-01
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780451527530 / 0451527534
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.4 x 4.2 x 0.7 in (18.80 x 10.67 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1200
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, African Americans - Civil rights
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001571326
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.119
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