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...Senate. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the place where the coming big men of the black Baptist organization served; it was a step on the escalator... Given King's up-bringing and education, and his father's plans for him, King would very probably have refused to pastor a lesser church." Northern-educated and ambitious, King had gone to Montgomery with a sense of secure possession of a successful future within the structure of the Baptist church and along the lines which success for Southern blacks had been determined since Reconstruction. However, what had not been planned...
...cities like Montgomery, Atlanta and Washington, the black middle class has always been able to establish institutions of superior education for its own. High schools like Washington's Dunbar and, to a lesser degree, Atlanta's Booker T. Washington, which King attended, and those in other Southern cities where the black middle class had the power to establish them, have produced an array of well-skilled, motivated blacks. Most blacks who attended the better colleges and graduate schools received their early education at these high schools, and the majority of these people either returned with their skills to the community...
...price of living without the canal has come high. The longer voyages around Africa have created a world shipping shortage, vastly inflating charter rates. Some economists estimate that closure has cost consumers in Europe, Japan, and to a lesser extent, the U.S., up to $1 billion a year...
...politician of Laird's stature and background, the options are limited once he does leave the Pentagon; there are few lesser positions he would willingly accept. There is speculation around Washington that he has his eye on the Republican presidential nomi nation in 1976. "I couldn't believe you were talking about Mel if you didn't talk in terms of his presidential plans," says one G.O.P. insider...
...just can't stand white people. I don't blame them, but from a realistic point of view, I hope we can work together. Obviously, black people aren't going to get justice unless they become more radical and when they do that, they're eradicated. I think the lesser evil is to keep up the pressure...