Dr. Martin Luther King, Louisville, 1967:
“Riots only intensify white fear while relieving their guilt. But riots don’t help Negroes. We talk about ‘burn, baby, burn,’ but Whitey is not in the burning ghettoes–the Negro is. We should be talking ‘build, baby, build’ and ‘vote, baby, vote.’”
National labor and civil rights leader W.C. Young of Paducah was at the rally, according to his widow, Carol Young. He saw unions and the civil rights movement as natural allies. “He never went anywhere without his union card and his NAACP card in his wallet,” she said.
Young handed out “Vote, Baby, Vote,” buttons. He helped with voter registration drives in his hometown, too.
So will the persons turning out to protest also turn out to vote in November?
(Read the rest at the KY AFL-CIO web site.)