... when we allow freedom to ring?from every village from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing?"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"".14 ... and the Ohio governor felt it was necessary to call in the National Guard. Guard members threw tear gas canisters to disperse a huge gathering in the campus commons, and when a small group of students threw the canisters back, the soldiers disobeyed direct orders ...

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... into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school ... as white children. A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to white woman. ... the path to a "Beloved Community-, the actualization of the "Kingdom of God-, a society "in which men and women live as children ...

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