MLK tragically forgot about the individual virtues that nurture community. by Myron Magnet – Spring 2023 – Claremont Review of Books Imagine the conflicted feelings of a black Southerner as 1955 drew to a close. A new world seemed struggling to be born, now that the Supreme Court had strengthened its year-old Brown v. Board school desegregation decree in May by demanding compliance “with all deliberate speed.” Yet in August, progress came to a gruesome halt. The savage murder in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till for a hint of flirtation with a white woman, along with the instant acquittal of … Continue reading Like Some Prophet of Old – MLK biography