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SOME of what your sources say IS accurate. SOME is not.(overall i'd rate your information as "a wash".

Then why don't you tell us what really happened? Tell us that the march didn't end in chaos. Tell us that no windows were smashed. Tell us that no one got arrested. Tell us that no one was killed by police. Tell us that Dr. King was pleased as punch with "that glorious day." Tell us that the march didn't become an excuse for the FBI to spread stories trying to discredit Dr. King. Tell us that the mayor of Memphis was so moved by the march that he immediately caved to the strikers' demands. Come on, you claim you were there. Tell us about it.

Tell us that the National Civil Rights Museum has it wrong, the National Archives has it wrong, the King Center has it wrong, and the Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute has it wrong. Tell us that every single available source has it wrong.

But you have it right.

like i said, SOME of what you point out has SOME merit. MOST of it doesn't (for example, as far as i know NO windows were broken by PARTICIPANTS in the march. what NONparticipants did/did not do has ZILCH to do with the march or its VALUE to the "civil rights movement". FYI, criminal acts, including but not limited to vandalism, are NOT confined to civil rights marches!)

did it ever cross your mind that those sources might know just as LITTLE as YOU do??? or that the writers might just have "an AGENDA" and or were trying to CHANGE the "record"??? (the FBI & the MPD certainly DID!)

better you ask me, who was THERE, than somebody who was NOT! (at least i was just a participant & a 20YO student, who had NO agenda except getting a decent living wage for a bunch of sanitation workers & their families.)

free dixie,sw