I Have a Dream - The Montgomery Bus Dilemma

The bus boycott in 1955 was, in fact, a act of American social radicalism. This is the early phase of the campaign for full employment and employment guarantees that would mark both Martin Luther King and his wife all the way onwards over the coming decades. In December 64, after he's received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, next thing that King does is to declare an economic boycott in support of 600 black women who are on strike. So this neat distinction between the political, illegal civil rights and economic struggle that comes afterwards is false in 66. The Humphrey Hawkins Amendment of October 1977 may be the last really radical piece of legislation passed by the American Congress. It seeks to turn the right