As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.


A Martin Luther King Treasury (ed. 1964)

Martin Luther King Quotes

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first...

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first...

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first...

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first...