Living the Questions: A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Miss Spink, the Missus Sphinx of the Movement
Nasus sphinx is the missus of the movement that nobody really talks about. She sat up a lot of nights with a shotgun across her lap, and she would tell us, now you all can sleep, i'm watching, and i'm not letting anybody bust up in here,. Not without a fight, you know. And these were two white women, which could have gotten them lynched ro ah, and yet they did it. It's so many stories that people don't know about the movement. Ah, and what you know, people just want to focus on doctor king, john lewis, rosa parks. But you know, this was a movement.
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