Protestantism

» pink101 - Civil Rights - great example

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You're right. I haven't learned much about the Revolutionary War except for what was passed on to me in the public educational system that I attended. I have seen a few movies and read some romantic novels set in the times. I don't think many people know much at all about that war. No one here seems to even be much interested other than you and me.
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I lived through the Civil Rights Movement here in the U.S.A. My understandings started in 1949 when, on my way to report to Paris Island after enlisting in the Marine Corps, I spent a day and an evening in Richmond, VA. I was 18 that summer. That and my experiences with several Marines from the South I met while I was in the Corps gave me some perspective on the intensity of the racism that pervaded the South. Then, later, when the Civil Rights Movement got underway, I was involved with some of the politics.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was an important person in the movement; but, the movement had many others--not the least of which--were those racists who tried to stop the movement. The people of the North--for the most part--were appalled at the reactions by police and politicians in the South, men like Lester Maddox. Many people from our local communities invaded the South and joined in on Freedom Marches. King cannot be left out of any serious discussions of the movement; but, the movement would have existed and continued without him. The time was right.
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BTW, Raphael is careful to include quotations from Washington and the others.
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-- posted by pink101