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Had he lived, he would undoubtedly look at the world about him with some alarm.

For although black Americans have made some considerable accompishments in the years since Martin Luther King died, the movement he lead appears to be in some dissray [sic] and the gains he can claim some credit for achieving seem in some danger of being destroyed.

History may well record that Martin Luther King was the premier figure in the 20th century stuggle for economic and political justice for black people.

He was born into a world nearly as rigidly segregated by custom and law as is South Africa today.

Most black people South of the Mason Dixon line were only two generations away, away from slavery, a paycheck or two away from abject poverty. As a people, Blacks were generally politically impotent, educationally impoverished, economically bankrupt.

Among King's contributions were to give eloquent voice to the aspirations of black America, and to give life to a method of mass participation in the struggle for civil rights so that everyone — student, housewife, minister, every woman every man could become an agent of their own deliverence.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois set down a progam every movement ought to follow:

"We must complain. Yes plain, blunt complaint, ceasless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong — this is the acient [sic], unerring way to liberty, and we must follow it . . . . . . . . . . . .