ALBANY — News of this year’s 60th anniversary of the March on Washington will doubtlessly reduce itself to four words and one man: MLK and “I have a dream.” What many don’t realize is the Albany Movement and the activism it spawned marked that day in so many ways.
One only need look at the speech of the 23-year-old newly elected president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis. His words had the Kennedys on edge, and with good reason. He all-but-charged the New Englanders of cozying up to local segregationists to protect their shot at a second term.
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