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African Americans to “develop a kind of dangerous

In 1988, in Indianapolis, state authorities established a residential treatment center for convicted child molesters in an all-white neighborhood. From the center's opening until mid-1991—a period during which all of the residents of the center were white—neighbors voiced no objections. In June 1991, however, authorities converted the center into a

history may have handed us an unprecedented opportunity to finish the job of bringing equal opportunity to all African Americans.

In December, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet, dignified black seamstress, Rosa Parks, refused to move to the back of a bus to make room for a white passenger, and was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws. A meeting in the church of Mrs. Parks’ pastor, a twenty-six-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. who, as

In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged African Americans to “develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”