Lady Lynda enjoyed Martin Luther King,Jr day with her husband.
They each smacked their lips and licked their fingers as they
enjoyed their Southern style friend chicken sandwichs. At the end
of the day Lady Lynda began cpmtemplating the life of the
Montgomery ALpastor Martin L. King of the Ebeneezer Baptist Church
in1955 She reminesced same year Rosa Parks refused to give up her
bus seat so a white man could sit down. Lady Lynda recalled when
she was little she thought the church was named for the character
from Charles Dickens novel “The Christmas Carol” She chuckled how
her husband joked the story should be called overnight ghost
therapy. The woman then shifted back to the civil rights leader
MLK.
Seymour Toze wife grimaced in disgust when she remembered in 1955
fourteen year old Emmett Till was lynched by some Klansmen because
the teen whistled at a white woman.
Then Lady Lynda mused about MLK organizing the Montgomery AL bus
boycot shortly past being elected president of the Montgomery
Improvement Association. It was a time when African Americans
realized they too could make a difference by their actions.
Lady Lynda gasped as she recalled his house was bombed . She sighed
a sigh of relief hiswife and children were saved. How King was
charged with conspiracy. How the amazing boycot was for 382 days
and how the bus boycot resulted in public transporation resulting
in segregating races was not legal. Then the woman bemused how
MLKing became 1957 head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
“Seymour Martin Luther King was a great African American wasn’t he?
Seymour replied He was not only a great African American. He was a
great American. Darling MLK day is a national holiday for all
Americans.
Toze solumnly mentioned the 1963″I Have a Dream” Speech and the
8/8/63 Washington DC march The two commented that King and other
leaders met with president John F. Kennedy. How the leaders wished
for segregation to end in education, African Americans to be better
served by the law and more civil rights laws. He then picked up his
gin mocktail . Lady Lynda picked up hers and they toasted MLK. Then
they hugged each other and kissed.
“Yes he was a noble man. So noble he won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Indeed he was Time magazine’s man of the year. “I’m sure they would
say person of the year these days” quipped Mrs Seymour Toze.
“Its a darn shame the first march on Selma AL was met police
violence. I’m glad the 2nd march succceeded. ” So am I Sweetybuns,
Toze responded. Sadly he was assasinated 1968. Ironically the day
before he gave his inspirational speech that mentioned how the LORD
allowed him to go to the mountain top. ….I’ve seen the promised
land. I may not get there.” Ironic”
The couple toasted each other with “King left a great legacy for
every American. ”
“Yes Martin Luther King deserves to be celebrated as every civial
rights leader does so that all races could be treated equally under
the law. At least that’s how its suppose to be. remarked Seymour.
“I most certainly get your drift Most certainly” remarked Lady
Lynda. They all deserve a day of honor as we dear most certainy
deserve to be close to each other”