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Should I send the following personal account to the MLK Jr. Museum?
Been thinking about this one recently, and wondered if I ought share it with the MLK jr. Center. It's a personal account which always had the family laughing, but I guess it's not something to laugh about. It's serious, but it offers another, possibly untold story about Dr King.
You may know the story of Dr. King being arrested in Georgia for marching without a permit (or so the authorities said). He and his supporters were then tossed in jail until most of them (save Dr. King himself) were released. Dr. King was later transferred onto another jail cell before ending up in one of the state prisons before being released on bond.
Here's the part of the story most people don't know.
Dr. King wasn't the only person in that cell. My Uncle, deceased two years ago, was in there with him. You see, my uncle was a Marine at the time, and was on leave when he got arrested for being drunk in public. It just happened that the cell they put him into, was the same cell that Dr King was placed into. I remember the family laughing some about it, because here you had this scrawny little marine, scared witless by all the peaceful protestors around him. In fact, as the story goes, my uncle went so far as to beg Dr. King to protect him, because he thought for sure the people outside the jail were going to riot, and if they came inside and found him there; since he was white they'd hang him. I remember my Uncle telling us how kind Dr. King was, and how he promised that it wouldn't ever happen, but added (after numerous repeated requests on the part of my uncle) that if it did happen, they'd have to go through him (Dr. King) first to get to my Uncle, so he needn't worry.
They took Dr. King away I think the next day, with the MP's coming to pick my uncle up shortly there after.
I know there isn't much to this story, and now that my uncle's gone I don't have anyone to back it up, but I wonder, should I pass this on to the King Center?
2 Answers
- SarahLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
That's awesome. I am sure the jail or the King center have records of his stay in the jail. I am sure you can get a copy of something showing your uncle's day/s in that same jail and where he was housed. Who knows if the King Center will want it....but the fact that you and your family have that story is pretty amazing.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think so. Sure couldn't hurt. So much hearsay has been passed on but mostly bad. At least this was positive. And I could see Dr. King doing just that. He wasn't about violent rioting and looting like some think,