No one in our community had attained any great wealth. The community in which I was born was quite ordinary in terms of social status. After that school closed, I went to Booker T. I went through the public schools of Atlanta for a period, and then I went to what was then known as the Atlanta University Laboratory High School for two years. I'm now co-pastor of that church, and my office in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is on Auburn Avenue. Our church, Ebenezer Baptist, is on Auburn Avenue. My birthplace was Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the state and the so-called "gateway to the South." Atlanta is home for me. I can see the effects of this early childhood experience on my present anticapitalistic feelings. I was much too young to remember the beginning of this depression, but I do recall, when I was about five years of age, how I questioned my parents about the numerous people standing in breadlines. I was born in the late twenties on the verge of the Great Depression, which was to spread its disastrous arms into every corner of this nation for over a decade. travels to Dublin, Georgia, to deliver "The Negro and the Constitution" in oratory contest ![]()
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