“More and more, I have come to feel that our next attack will have to be more than just getting a lunch counter integrated or a department store to take down discriminatory signs,” King said. “I feel we will have to assault the whole system of segregation in a community.” Yet again, however, the integration movement faced opposition, in part from radical Black activists, including Malcolm X, who said King had been co-opted and defanged by the Kennedys. Malcolm said he was impressed with the March on Washington “the same way I would be with the Rose Bowl Game.” King’s speech was moving, but
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