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In reply to the discussion: Yesterday left me in despair. [View all]Thirties Child
(543 posts)14. We shall overcome...I still cry when I hear those words.
I cried more tears than I knew I had in me in April, 1968. I felt a loving, caring, coming together in Atlanta then. We drove with our lights on, we had work to do, we could express our feelings by marching. My husband was acting Division for UPI then (back when UPI meant something). He sat at his typewriter and cried as he wrote the funeral story.
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