I’ve heard that Martin Luther King Jr. did not want my dad Hosea Williams to March this time. Hosea had led many marches across the southeast by then, he was hired by Martin King because of his success in organizing and leading working people to march. Hosea was sent to this small Southern town to manage the movement there until Dr. King could get there. They had a phone call about the rising sentiment of the people there, especially about the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the decision was…
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