Only your heart and actions matters
Ole Jakob Skovly Svendsen, Denmark I love the speech from Martin Luther King – I have a dream that one day you will not judge...
Amendment becomes law Crenchaw ascends Denali
James Edward Mills, Madison, WI. On this date 51 years ago the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (enacted July 2, 1964) was signed into law....
Small towns don’t care for diversity
Tess Junge, St. Paul, MN Growing up in a small town as a white person, I really didn’t have an understanding of racism. It wasn’t...
Adopted from India lived in NH
Kayla Eckhoff, Denver, CO. I was just a year old when I was adopted, I was born in India and grew up in a small...
I was there, so were friends.
Daniel Cohen Stroudsburg, PA I am so grateful that you have this exhibit. The sixties and the political movements of that time were so exciting...
Montgomery Blair HS still inspires me
Jonathan Feldman, Rochester, NY. My high school was integrated, and we took such pride in this that Stevie Wonder found out: he made a surprise...
He stood. She sat. For equality.
Linda Leigh Hargrove, Concord, NC. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial and made a game-changing speech. More than 250,000 people stood...
Better to offend than not discuss
Joe Mallahan Seattle, WA As a white man raised in the United States, I have, by no choice of my own, indelible racist perspectives ingrained...
White woman regrets black friend opportunity.
Jill Crusey, San Diego, CA Grew up on the south side of Chicago as a white girl who went to a high school where black...
Usually I’m ashamed to be white
Thomas Williamson, Cool Valley, MO Born the end of 1949, traveled throughout the country, changed schools every year, in D.C. when Dr. King was killed,...
Blacks beat me, I forgave them
Bob D, West Chester, PA It happened in the summer of ’68. I was alone at a concert at the city stadium in Glen Cove,...
Jesus, help me love like MLK!
Ann Barrentine, Bloomington, IN Still find it hard to love powerful racist white ppl… Was involved in some civil rights activity in Southern VA in...
Perception equals reality – OPEN YOUR EYES!
Kathy Devine-Henry, Smyrna, DE. Prior to my twenty-seventh birthday, my eyes were not completely open. Up until this point I believed that Martin Luther King...
Character is more important than race.
Richard Byrnes, Sellersville, PA Forget this race baiting. It is divisive. Live by MLK’s philosophy of judging people by their character, and not by the...
Sipping lattes, we call it racism.
Michael, Livonia, MI It strikes me over and over again that we confuse the problems of being poor with racism. Dr. Martin Luther King understood...
Being white makes race discussions difficult
Allen Hester Cheyenne, WY I have been involved in a speech in debate program for 5 years now (4 years in high school and 1...
