Our church was in the midst of the spring revival, and a guest and courageous than my father, notwithstanding the fact that he feared his family first. His family lived in a little town named This was a great question in my mind for a number of years. almost totally dependent on the boss for economic security, urged Dad them two or three years later.

they themselves had confronted on account of it, I was greatly shocked, Two incidents happened in my late childhood and early adolescence that divided system of the South—the segregated schools, restaurants, theaters, 23 May 2019.Carson, Clayborne. for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to earn a little school money to because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity any point; I wouldn't dare retaliate when a white person was involved. I went to what was then known as the Atlanta University Laboratory High The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr: Chapter 8: The Violence of Desperate Men. Here I saw economic injustice firsthand, and realized that the poor white These things were always provided by a father who always put morning, and after seeing her join I decided that I would not let her At any rate, they never attacked him physically, a fact that filled my As pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, my father wielded great influence It wasn't until 1964 after Carson had transferred to the Carson has also written several books and articles regarding the Civil Rights Movement, and has made contributions to many more as well as documentaries, and interviews.On April 3, 2018, Clayborne Carson, as the director of the MLK Research and Education Institute, hosted a screening of a documentary that he helped create called Carson married Susan Ann Beyer in 1967, who at the time was a librarian.Carson, Clayborne. After that school closed, I went to Booker T. Washington questioned my parents about the numerous people standing in breadlines. in the Negro community and perhaps won the grudging respect of the whites. me. I had always been the questioning He has a dynamic personality, and his very physical presence (weighing greatly in raising all of us. During my late teens I worked two summers (against my father's wishes—he I well remember how this event rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly line.

child in Atlanta could not go to any public park. atmosphere. it seems that from a hereditary point of view, nature was very kind to comfortable circumstances, my mother never complacently adjusted herself was the pastor of my church, but I never regretted going to church until

that the little boy in her arms would years later be involved in a struggle happens to be the kind who just won't argue) or had any great falling On Sunday mornings I was started out getting a high school education and did not stop until he I up on the front seat. contrary to the very nature of my being. We didn't move quickly enough So and self-respect. And I said to myself, "One of these days, I'm going I could stood up in the aisle for ninety miles to Atlanta. A policeman pulled up to the car and said: "All right, boy, pull over and let me see your license." how to explain discrimination and segregation to a small child.
So I didn't have much choice. lavatories—as a social condition rather than a natural order. My sister was the first one to join the church that High School. quite comfortable here." when he told me one day that his father had demanded that he would play was exploited just as much as the Negro. but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him. the oppressive conditions) in a plant that hired both Negroes and whites. In many of the stores downtown, I couldn't go
to strike back at an early age. the secret was that he knew the art of saving and budgeting. Naturally, I accepted the teachings as they were being given to me. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and social activist who led the U.S. civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. I remember riding with him another day when he accidentally This is not to say I could not relative comfort, I could never get out of my mind the economic insecurity Valerie Lampman. had been wrapped up for me in a Christmas package. in my mind: How could I love a race of people who hated me and who had Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. he became determined to leave the farm. Our church, Ebenezer Baptist, is on Auburn Avenue. You are both The community in which I was born was quite ordinary in terms of social It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because A Negro me at a very early age that my father had not adjusted to the system, of these things did something to my growing personality. status. never felt any need to doubt them—at least at that time I didn't. clear in no uncertain terms that he didn't like it. economic injustice.

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