I Came Out Of A Family Background

In '32 We Organized The Young Negroes' Cooperative League And Had Some Degree Of Success In Terms Of Establishing Stores And Certainly Buying Clubs In Various Sections Of The Country. I Was Designated As - I Don't Know What Exactly - I Believe It Was Director. I'm Not Sure What It Was, But It Had To Do With Getting Out The Necessary Mail And All Of That - Organization.

I Think You Can Find Some Rationales For That If We Look At The Background Out Of Which He Came. Martin [luther King] Had Come Out Of A Highly Competitive, Black, Middle-class Background.

One Of The Things That Has To Be Faced Is The Process Of Waiting To Change The System, How Much We Have Got To Do To Find Out Who We Are, Where We Have Come From And Where We Are Going.

His Name Was Michael R. Ross. I've Never Known What The "r" Was For. He Died, However, Before I Was 7. But He And I Seemed To Have Had Quite A Nice Relationship. He Always Called Me Grandlady, And He'd Always Talk To You As A Person Rather Than As A Child. So, I Would Go With Him For His Routes In His Horse And Buggy. So, My Memory Of Him Is Pretty Sharp, Plus It Has Been Accentuated By The Stories That Come Out Of The Family.

Give Light, And People Will Find The Way...