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Monday, 16 January 2012

Interesting Read - CNN Article On MLK's Response To A Black Gay Teen in the 50's





“I am a boy,” an anonymous writer told King. “But I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don't want my parents to know about me. What can I do?”

The above is an excerpt from a letter that Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King received whilst guesting as an advice columnist for Ebony Magazine back in 1958. What advice did Dr. King give the boy? Find out after the jump:


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