King's Forgotten Manifesto
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Volume 28, Edition 768 DIVERSITY IN ACTION - SBE is a certified DBE publication MAY 17, 2012 King’s Forgotten SBE OUTREACH SERVICES With half a million businesses in our database, SBE is California’s #1 source for Manifesto diversity outreach. Advertisements Placed in the Small Business Exchange newspaper, SBE Today newsletter, and online at www.sbeinc.com Faxed Solicitations Targeted mailings sent to businesses per your criteria. Telemarketing Telephone follow-up calls that follow a script of 5 questions you create. Computer Generated Reports Will fi t right into your proposal, along with a list of interested fi rms to contact. Call Toll FREE for more information: 800-800-8534 Prst Std Permit No. 820 San Fran CA 941 U.S. Postage PAID Photo Credit: http://www.rawstory.com By David W. Blight and Allison Scharfstein rarely explicitly voted for equality; history, Op-Ed Contributors through institutions and a few courageous ON May 17, 1962, the Rev. Dr. Martin leaders, has enacted it. Luther King Jr. delivered an extraordinary During the 1960 presidential debates, Kennedy manifesto to the White House. Constructed had suggested that he would address equality as both a moral appeal and a legal brief, the of opportunity by the “stroke of the presi- 64-page document called on President John dent’s pen.” Yet when civil rights activists F. Kennedy to issue a “second Emancipation pressed him on this promise, his political ties Proclamation,” an executive order outlawing to white Southern Democrats proved to be a Paid subscribers receive first class mail. segregation — just as President Abraham formidable obstacle. Indeed, it was the hold Lincoln had done with slavery a century of Southern segregationists on Congressional earlier. committee chairmanships that prompted civil The civil rights era, like the Civil War, pro- rights leaders to put their hope in an executive duced a wealth of great writing. But unlike order rather than legislation. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech or his “Letter King infused his executive-order campaign From Birmingham Jail,” which we remember with the gravitas of the centennial of the Civil for their visionary rhetoric, this extraordinary War and emancipation. “What we need to do,” document has been virtually forgotten. he told Clarence B. Jones, his trusted legal And yet the manifesto is a wonderful example adviser, “is to get Kennedy to issue a second of King’s close reading of American politics, Emancipation Proclamation on the anniver- as well as his understanding of the role that sary of the first one.” moral leadership, in this case through an On June 6, 1961, at a news conference in New executive order, could have on the American York, King explicitly invoked the memory of public. It’s a lesson we should take to heart the Civil War: “Just as Abraham Lincoln had today, when a deadlocked Congress stands in the vision to see almost 100 years ago that this contrast to a president willing to take a bold nation could not exist half-free, the present stand on same-sex marriage. Americans have Continued on page 3 Published by Small Business Exchange, Inc. 703 Market Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, CA 94103 2 SBE TODAY WWW.SBEINC.COM MAY 17, 2012 REQUESTS FOR BIDS & SUB-BIDS RGW Construction Inc. RGW Construction Inc. 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