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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
Thursday, January 30,1997
Don’t sell King
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA - A biographer of
the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. says the civil rights leader
did not embrace leadership of
the movement to gain fame or
money, and his legacy should
King
not be commercialized.
During a worship service in
King’s honor Sunday at
Emory University, author
David J. Garrow said King
went about the task of pro
moting freedom and equality
for all with no thoughts of
self-promotion.
“The unique thing is he did
not set out to become a
celebrity,” said Garrow,
author of the Pulitzer Prize
winning “Bearing the Cross:
Martin Luther King and the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.”
“He was very reluctant,
almost dragged into that role
by his friends in Montgomery,
Ala., in 1955-56. He desired to
be a father, husband and per
haps college teacher.”
Garrow, a visiting professor
in Emory's law school, made
the comments to underscore
his reservations about a
recent lucrative deal between
Time Warner Inc. and King's
estate to publish new books
and other products related to
King’s speeches and writings.
It is to easy in this age for
people’s legacies to become
trivialized and distorted by a
culture that is fundamentally
commercial, Garrow said.
The issues surrounding
King’s legacy should not be
legal or commercial ones,
Garrow said. Drawing from
King’s own words, he said,
“King’s message and legacy to
all of us is that we should
indeed strive to have a life,
not a living.”
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support.”
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campaign of love in the black
community,” Barnett said.
“Young black men will be asked
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they meet with ‘brother.’ To
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free during the month of
Februaiy. To join the campaign
to ‘Stop The Killing’ or some
organization in the Hack com
munity for one year.”
“The message is there are far
more good black men than there
are bad,” Barnett said. “For too
long the media has shown the
negatives in our community.”
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