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“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”

Martin Lutherthat Kingthe Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963 “It may be true law cannot make a man love me, ...And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, cantokeep him from that lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.” but I but wantityou know tonight we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and actions seem relevant again

“I Have A Dream”

By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure, limited to speaking a single sentence taken out of context and shorn of its true meaning.

Instead, the honest scholarship and media commentary considering what King faced and what he did have broken through the obscuring fog of conservative, and yes, centrist, propaganda.

In part, that’s because, today the confrontation between the forces of progress and the racist reaction to that progress is sharper than any time since the 1960s.

Today, as in the 1960s, American society is grappling with elevating new groups of Americans to full citizenship. Today, as in the 1960s, it’s being forced to confront the meaning of its widespread poverty and joblessness, and its diminished educational opportunity. Today, as in the 1960s, Black Americans’ right to vote is under siege from conservatives, as are women’s reproductive rights.

And today, as in the 1960s, the country is debating the extent of government’s responsibility to protect individuals’ access to opportunity.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and actions seem relevant again because they’ve always presented a challenge to the status quo and always urged individuals to live up to humanity’s best possibilities.

That command has become particularly compelling again because of the remarkable juxtaposition of present-day developments and anniversaries of past landmark events. The latter include: the 50-year anniversaries of the climactic years of the Civil Rights Movement, especially the year 1963, when King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington; and of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, whose

support of the civil rights struggle, tentative though it was, made him Blacks’ most important presidential ally since Abraham Lincoln. And it also includes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.

The completion of the King Memorial in Washington – and the welcome controversy about its design helped immeasurably as well. The controversy itself was a metaphorical breath of fresh air, blowing away at least some of the clouds of stultifying hero-worship that had for too long distorted the fact that the real Martin Luther King, Jr. was, above all, a great provocateur.

Speaking in the early 1990s, when the conservative political ascendancy was at its height, Rev. Hosea Williams, one of King’s lieutenants during the civil rights struggles, explained that “There is a definite effort on the part of America to change Martin Luther King, Jr. from what he was really about – to make him the Uncle Tom of the century. “ Williams insisted, “In my mind, he was the militant of the century.”

Williams was right, and King’s importance – his militancy – is still not completely understood today.

He didn’t “make” the Civil Rights Movement.

He wasn’t its operational leader or its major tactician. But he was its national and international spokesman – the man who, speaking in that rich baritone, could turn words into emotions that were otherwise inexpressible and into word-pictures that represented the entire tapestry of the centuries-long Black freedom struggle.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 13-year life on the national stage brilliantly represented the courage it took in those decades to challenge the seemingly overwhelming power of the South’s racist

power structure. Far less acknowledged is the courage it took for King – after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and his being awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize – to resist the temptations of partial success and his own fame.

Instead, King kept moving leftward, to confront the racial and economic injustice that had created and maintained the Black ghettos of the North, and the national hubris that had led America into the quagmire of war in Southeast Asia.

For this he was pilloried by President Lyndon B. Johnson and much of the White liberal establishment, and a good portion of the civil rights and Black political establishment, too. His insistence that nonviolence was still a viable means of social change was ridiculed, as were his plans to stage a multiracial Poor Peoples March on Washington and involve himself in the bitter sanitation worker’s strike in Memphis, Tenn.

But those difficult years were actually King’s finest hours. At the moment of his assassination, he was standing where he had begun his public life: with ordinary Black people who were being unjustly denied their human rights.

King’s refusal to submit offers a lesson to take to heart at this moment when conservative politicians and theorists are trying to restore inequality of opportunity as the law of the land.

It tells us we should adopt King as The Militant of the 21st Century, too.

Lee A. Daniels, Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His essay, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Great Provocateur,” appears in Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent,” to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in March.

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Lee Elder, 1st Black Golfer to Play Masters, Dies at Age 87

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Lee Elder, a golfing pioneer, and the first Black player to compete in the Masters has died at 87.

“It’s remarkable to look back on Lee’s life and career and realize the hardships he endured and the sacrifices he made to reach golf’s highest level,” said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan.

“To have the success he had while paving the way for others to dream big and achieve is a testament to the type of man he was and how much talent he possessed.

The TOUR is profoundly grateful for the career of Lee Elder, and we extend our sincere sympathies to his family.”

Born in 1934 in Dallas, Texas, Elder took up golf to help his parents financially.

He caddied at the all-white Tennison Park Golf Club in Dallas, but soon the golf pro began allowing Elder to play the course.

In 1959, Elder joined the United Golfers Association In 1959, Elder joined the United Golfers Association and dominated the all-Black group.

According to BlackPast.org, Elder won four Negro National Open Championships and an eye-opening 18 of the 22 tournaments in which he participated.

Using the purses from those victories allowed Elder to participate in the 1967 qualifying school for the PGA TOUR. In 1971, Elder made history as the first Black player invited to participate in the South African PGA Tournament.

“His participation in that event made this the first integrated sports event in South Africa since the establishment of the official Apartheid policy in 1948,” researchers at the Black Past wrote.

However, they noted further thatGET ElderTHE FACTS and other Black golfers continued to face racial challenges at home.

“Although the PGA Tour was officially Connecticut has non-white population. The figure open to African Americans, it was not friendly to them. Many tournaments for the inner city newspaper coverage area is an overwhelmwould not allow Black golfers into the clubhouse and instead required thating they . change and eat in the parking lot,” the researchers wrote.

However, in 1975, Elder made history Within again in Augusta, Georgia, when he was the inner city distribution area, the cities with the larginvited to compete at the Masters Open, est non-white populations are: the most prestigious tournament in golf.

With his victory at the 1974 Monsanto New haven Bridgeport Open, Elder automatically qualified for the Masters Open, but he also became the This represents a vital consumer base and an important segfirst Black player invited. Unfortunately, Elder missed the qualifying round in the ment of the population that cannot be ignored! Media martournament.

Still, his entrance was an African Ameriof the black popuket research (MRI) reported that can milestone covered by almost every major magazine and news program lation in the have household incomes of over a year! country, noted the Black Press.

Elder played in five more Masters, won of this population have incomes of 70,000 or more! three PGA tournaments, and was named to the 1979 Ryder Cup Team.

He had a combined 12 tournament victories on the PGA and Senior Tours, earning

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“Lee Elder was a pioneer, and in so many Published: weekly / circulation: /ways,” Readership: legendary golf champ Jack Nicklaus told Bill Fields during a PGATOUR. com interview.

“Yes, he was the first Black player to Where: over racks throughout the New Haven compete in theand Masters Tournament, but that simply underlined the hard work Lee Bridgeport area. put in to further the cause of everyone who has a dream to play on the PGA TOUR and perhaps thinks there were too many barriers before them. It was wonderful Bridgeport New haven that the Masters Tournament and Augusta National paid a well-deserved tribute to New Haven, Westhaven, Hamden, North Haven, Bridgeport, Lee by inviting him to be an Honorary Starter on this last Masters. That morning, Orange, Ansonia, Milford, Waterbury you could see the joy in Lee’s face, and Gary Player and I were honored to enjoy that moment with him. That memory will Here are some quick facts about our readers. remain special for so many, including me, for many years to come.

College educated: Age: “Lee was a good player, but most importantly, a good man who countless people Male / Female: Home owners: very well respected,” added Nicklaus.

“The game of golf lost a hero in Lee Elder. Barbara and I send our heartfelt condolences to Lee’s wife Sharon and their entire family.”

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