Summary
A US civil rights leader treated in Chapter 9 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as an example of the Black freedom struggle’s internationalism, who joined Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah at Ghana’s independence inauguration in Accra on March 6, 1957 (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1655-1670).
Details
- His “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963) is quoted: “We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.” (lines 1658-1668)
- Michelle Alexander’s 2019 column on Palestine is presented as inspired by King’s controversial 1967 decision to denounce the US war in Vietnam (lines 1678-1688).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Black–Palestinian solidarity, Michelle Alexander