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A movement without beginning or end
on Wednesday 28 August 2013
on Wednesday 28 August 2013
Growing up in one of the few African American families in Los Alamos, N.M., Clayborne Carson developed an interest in the civil rights movement from afar by reading about it in the newspapers. He was inspired that young people his age were involved in a movement that was changing the world. In 1963, he hopped on a one-way bus to join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
As he sat amongst the tens of thousands of people listening to Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he didn’t (…)