Martin King first encountered lynching in conversations with his parents. His father, “Daddy King,” would later, in his autobiography, describe his first childhood glimpse of Judge Lynch, an event so terrifying that “I thought I was going to pass out.” A group of disgruntled white men, complaining about “niggers” taking their jobs, had decided to take their frustrations out on a black man who worked with them at the mill. Hearing their conversation, as he walked near them from work, the black man knew his life was in grave danger, but it was too late to retreat or to pass unnoticed. He just
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