The Advent Of The Civil Rights Movement

I Heard Of Martin Luther King Jr. When I Was 15 Years Old. I Heard Of Rosa Parks. And I Met Dr. King In 1958 At The Age Of 18. I Met Rosa Parks ... But To Pick Up A Fun Comic Book - Some People Used To Call Them "funny Books" - To Pick This Little Book Up, It Sold For 10 Cents, 12 Pages Or 14 Pages? 14 Pages I Digested. And It Inspired Me. And I Said To Myself, "if The People Of Montgomery Can Do This, Maybe I Can Do Something. Maybe I Can Make A Contribution."

In The Past The Great Majority Of Minority Voters, In Ohio And Other Places That Means African American Voters, Cast A Large Percentage Of Their Votes During The Early Voting Process.

People Must Understand That People Were Beaten, Arrested, Jailed, And Some People Were Murdered, While Attempting To Register To Vote, Or To Get Others To Register To Vote.

Ornette Coleman Is Doing The Only Really New Thing In Jazz Since The Innovations In The Mid-forties Of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, And Those Of Thelonious Monk

I Say From Time To Time That The Vote Is Precious. It's Almost Sacred. It Is The Most Powerful Nonviolent Tool Or Instrument That We Have In A Democratic Society. And We Must Use It.