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This article reminds me of a little known incident that happened to King in Maple Shade, NJ. King was on his way to Boston for school and stopped for food in Maple Shade. He went to a cafe and the owner pulled a shotgun on him and ran him out, firing into the sky as King ran to safety. King went to the cops and reported it, and was told the owner claimed he was merely shooting as a way to call in his dogs and had nothing to do with King. The cops wouldn't pursue it.

King testified that it was this incident that changed him into a civil rights activist, because while he expected that in the south he thought in the North he was free from it and it shook him to his core to realize there was nowhere he would be treated equal.

The restaurant changed hands over the years and ended it's life as the Moorestown Pub, which they recently bulldozed to make way for an overpass. No marker there to note the significance of the site, in fact almost nobody even knows it happened. I heard the story from an old timer and did some research to confirm it.

Thank you for the story. I have also heard that Jesse Jackson became a leftist after initially trying to get admitted to Bob Jones University.

My criticisms of King have nothing to do with race and everything to do with theology. Actually, at one time there was no such thing as jim crow. It was enacted by "redeemer" Democrats after Reconstruction. It never should have existed in the first place. If it hadn't, it wouldn't have led to a generation of radicals who got their credibility fighting it before moving on to their ulterior goals.