Too fast, forty years ago

TorgoX on 2003-08-21T05:51:21

Dear Log,

«A Newsweek poll shortly afterwards [after King's "I Have A Dream" speech in DC] showed that 3% of African-Americans and 74% of whites believed that "Negroes were moving too fast".»

--"I have a dream": On August 28 1963, Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered a speech that made America - and the whole world - sit up and listen. Gary Younge explains how it came about, how President Kennedy tried to stop it, and why it is as important now as it was then


The only thing I want to know...

rafael on 2003-08-21T09:00:31

...is the proportion of people who believed that "Negroes were moving too slow".