Does anyone remember back in ‘63?? How it was??
Today it would be nothing for a 13 year old to go somewhere like this, it would have been extremely, EXTREMELY unusual for a 13 yo to do this back then. I doubt it just for that reason, in addition to Clinton being a congenital liar.
Segregated ...and highly doubtful that a parent would take a child (White or Black) to any event that might get ugly... heavy police presence at ALL MLK sightings and events.
>>Clinton being a congenital liar.<<
And her husband is a genital liar.
I would surmise that many whites were not going to see King speak in 1961, the earliest date mentioned.
Yes, actually I do. I was on my own in Chicago in '63 when I was 16 years old; and I was from Long Island! Yes, I was traveling with my father, but he had work to do so I went to baseball games, the Museum of Science and Industry, movies, and anything else that interested me by myself. (And I had been doing the same thing every summer since I was eleven years old.) I wasn't particularly interested in politics then, so a King event wouldn't have been for me. But as for how it was, it really was a different world. I also made my first solo trip into NYC when I was eleven years old. I took the train in, and then the subway up to the Hayden Planetarium; and then after that I was a regular at MSG, Yankee Stadium, and the Polo Grounds. It really wasn't a big deal.
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