Georgia did not change easily. It required the intervention of the U.S. attorney general on behalf of the young couple, and a restraining order against a Clayton County ordinary.

Betty and John recognize that what happened on May 8, 1971, in Clayton County, Georgia, was a significant event.

Just before the wedding, a Jet magazine reporter offered to accompany them to Danforth Chapel on the Morehouse College campus and tell that story, but they demurred. This was a personal occasion, not national news.

Now they know it was both.

A photo of John and Betty Sanford, on their wedding day in 1971. Their marriage brought an end to Georgia's law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 
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A photo of John and Betty Sanford, on their wedding day in 1971. Their marriage brought an end to Georgia’s law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
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Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

Going to the chapel

Betty Byrom grew up in Hapeville, right near the airport. She experienced a turning point in her life as a high school student during a special trip to New York and Washington, D.C. Standing outside the Supreme Court building and looking up at the inscription, “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW,” she had a revelation.

“That statement was totally not true, and it shook me to the core,” she said recently from her home in Lansing, Michigan. “Tears ran down my face.”

John Sanford grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. His father worked for U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana, and John volunteered at the Gary Neighborhood House, a social service center in an all-Black neighborhood.

While his life was lived at a distance from that world, his experience prompted him to study sociology at Purdue.

At Purdue, he was also required to join the ROTC, and he graduated with an officer’s commission. Sanford was a second lieutenant, taking officer’s training at Fort Benning, and Byrom was working for the Urban League in Detroit when they were engaged.

“When I was a young girl, I said I don’t think I’d marry a white guy. I don’t even think I want to date one. If I did marry one, he’d have to be rich. I surprised myself, I’m going to tell you. When I met John, I forgot all about that.”

– Betty Sanford

On April 2, 1971, they posted an engagement announcement in The Atlanta Constitution and began to plan the wedding at long distance, reserving a spot at the Danforth Chapel, arranging a reception at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA and a honeymoon in Florida.

The invitations went out. Relatives in South Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, New Mexico and Ohio organized travel arrangements. On Tuesday, May 4, they sought a marriage license from the Clayton County ordinary, H.W. Roberts.

He told them it was against the law, and he would be charged with a misdemeanor if he cooperated. Then he gave them the card of a lawyer who might help them.

John and Betty politely accepted the card, left the courthouse and drove right past the lawyer’s office. “I knew about the Loving case,” said Betty, and she was against hiring a lawyer. “We’re not paying one penny,” she said at the time. “This case has already been won.”

Mildred Loving and her husband Richard in 1965. Richard died in a car wreck in 1975. Mildred lived to be 68, pasing away in 2008. (AP photo)

The Loving decision

In 1958, a Virginia couple named Richard and Mildred Loving were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. They were arrested after police raided their home in the middle of the night, shining a flashlight in their faces as they slept in their own bed.

Their appeals reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, which found in their favor and vacated the Virginia law against interracial marriage.

That ruling instantly voided so-called anti-miscegenation state laws elsewhere, said scholar Jane Dailey, though states fought against the change.

Dailey, author of “White Fright,” and professor of history at the University of Chicago, said some states, such as Alabama, thought they could permanently protect laws against interracial marriage by including them in the state constitution. It didn’t work.

Dailey’s book details the way white Southerners sought to reinforce Jim Crow laws by exploiting fears of marital relations between the races. In Georgia, the strategy worked until 1971.

It is difficult to know whether a Georgia marriage license may have been granted to another interracial couple before the Sanfords were wed. Anne Sodini Emanuel, former associate dean of the Georgia State University Law School, said despite the fact that Georgia’s law was vacated by the 1967 decision, it was still on the books, and “the likelihood a county clerk would still honor it is not remote.”

John and Betty Sanford, stand for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia's law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 
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John and Betty Sanford, stand for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia’s law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

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Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

When the Sanfords’ application for a license was turned down, the wedding was only four days away. Family members were en route to Georgia. The cake was ordered. She already had a dress.

Growing desperate, they asked for assistance from John’s military authorities, from the ACLU and from Georgia state Rep. Julian Bond.

All were willing to help, but none could produce a license in four days. The minister they had reserved backed out, citing the lack of a license.

Betty asked her brother-in-law, the Rev. Ernest M. Bradford, if he would officiate. Bradford had marched on Selma with John Lewis and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He wasn’t scared.

“Betty came up with an idea,” said John. “That idea,” said Betty, “was to call the U.S. attorney general’s office in Washington. That’s when things started rolling in our favor.”

The attorney on their case assured them that they could proceed with the wedding, and that by the time they returned from their honeymoon, they would have a license.

The Sanfords enjoyed their May 8 ceremony, their three-tiered wedding cake, and their drive through Florida. When they returned, the U.S. attorney told them Clayton County was ready to issue a license. Betty insisted that the license be dated May 8.

“I didn’t think my marriage license date should suffer because of Georgia being out of compliance,” she said.

John and Betty Sanford, sit for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia's law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 
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John and Betty Sanford, sit for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia’s law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

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Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

Life in black and white

They knew marriage would have its challenges. His parents and her parents both cautioned that the world could be hurtful.

John said that the first 10 years of their married life were spent on military bases, and that made things easier. He served two years Army active duty and eight years as a civilian with the American Red Cross Service to Armed Forces. (According to Dailey, interracial marriage is more common among those serving in the armed forces than in other demographic.)

After their two sons, Jawara and Mani, were born, they didn’t give them “the talk,” or stress racial lines, and didn’t tell them about their conflict with the state of Georgia until many years later.

“I didn’t want them to grow up with some of the anger I had growing up, so I didn’t talk to them a lot about the lesson people give their kids about police,” said Betty.

John and Betty Sanford, stand for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia's law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 
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John and Betty Sanford, stand for a portrait at home in Lansing, Michigan on February 3, 2021. In 1971, their marriage brought an end to Georgia’s law forbidding interracial marriage and this year they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

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Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

Credit: Sylvia Jarrus

“Sometimes ignorance can make things smoother,” said Jawara, in a Zoom call from Madrid, Spain, where he teaches philosophy at the St. Louis University, Madrid campus.

“I think that must be part of the explanation for why I didn’t tend to think about race very much,” he said. “I would say I was genuinely somewhat naive.”

Things have changed since 1971. The vice president of the United States is not only a Black woman, but she is married to a white man.

At the Democratic convention, when Kamala Harris and her family came out onstage, “I remember thinking, ‘what a beautiful rainbow of colors,’” said Betty. “To see that in America is so gratifying, I think it will do a lot to change attitudes.”

In 2017, Betty and John spoke before about 100 members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, about their journey and about their debt to Richard and Mildred Loving. “They paved the way for us,” said Betty. “I feel like I’m indebted to them. Nobody walked in our bedroom and shined a light in our face at night.”

Their plans for Valentine’s Day — and for their 50th anniversary on May 8 — are somewhat muted by COVID-19. The two have been playing it safe, and don’t even go to the grocery store, preferring to have their food delivered. They plan to capture their life in a video that can be shared with family and friends.

The freedom that they made possible however, will be shared by many Georgia couples, and couples around the country.

What their experience proves, said Betty Sanford, is that while love may not conquer all, “it conquers a lot.”

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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In this series, the AJC takes a look back at the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement through its historical coverage. It’s a story that can never be forgotten, especially by those who lived it.

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The World of Coca-Cola parking deck at 126 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., Atlanta, Ga. 30313 is the closest available parking to the Center. It costs $12 per vehicle for 0-4 hours and $17 per vehicle for 4 or more hours. You can also part in the Georgia Aquarium parking deck, which you can get to using the address, 357 Luckie Street, NW Atlanta, Ga. 30313. It costs $12 for nonmembers.”},{“_id”:”ECARU663SFHK5PKITI7OEFYJYE”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”SXOGQEJGKZDF5G2SVORUBXEYR4″},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/life/arthur-blank-foundation-gives-civil-and-human-rights-center-17m-grant/MXD4PRSEKZCYBENVCKBWACG4NU/”,”content”:”Arthur Blank Foundation gives Civil and Human Rights Center $17M grant”},{“_id”:”32AZHG2XIJF75DMUGYFQTDPMVM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006729},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Hours: The Center is open from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 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Fridays and Saturdays are always the busiest days at the Center.”},{“_id”:”F3GPBKORERDMLE2FMOVKUN6NJE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006735},”type”:”text”,”content”:”How much time does it take to experience the Center? Be sure to enter before 4 p.m. to gain entry. Leave at least 90 minutes to experience the museum fully.”},{“_id”:”4UKDDCKWRZFXPNS2ORH3KODSQI”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”ISAEYW3EUJE7RLNQQEMP7B6TY4″},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/events/guide-visiting-the-carter-presidential-center/W4eY9W50Si3RGDijlqLW3L/”,”content”:”Guide to visiting the Carter Presidential Center”},{“_id”:”7V7XXJMDIJDVBDHJFV76736T6Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006736},”type”:”text”,”content”:”What type of bag can you bring in with you? Luggage and backpacks are permitted, but there is no storage area for personal belongings. Visitors must keep their items with them at all times.”},{“_id”:”AS4BELSPUFGIJGBIIZVIPIPAUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006737},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Can you bring food in with you? Food is permitted in the atrium, where parents may feed babies, but not in the galleries. The gift shop sells snacks. Chewing gum, candy and water bottles are not allowed in the galleries.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”Visitors stroll through the National Center for Civil and Human Rights on Monday during its grand opening. 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Children in single strollers are welcome in the Center’s galleries but during particularly busy attendance times, stroller use may be limited. “Front-facing baby carriers are permitted and encouraged.””},{“_id”:”ZUZUEKCG6BFHPDFNTT33U4SBUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006739},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Is photography allowed? The Center allows “private, non-commercial use only.” Photography is not allowed within “Voice to the Voiceless: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr., Collection.” Be sure to be mindful of the visitors around you when attempting to photograph and record video. No flash photography is allowed.”},{“_id”:”FMCZHBGR3BELZBHL7BQCV7CWA4″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”PYWKJD65BFHKLL7XLD7ZEHFYTQ”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/arts–theater/secrets-atlanta-woodruff-arts-center/2ckh4Q3n6XpuAAmS2Ff0VP/”,”content”:”14 secrets of Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center”},{“_id”:”UVQWFMCQ25B3JGTKWU7ONV7JMM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006742},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Where is the best place to take a selfie? The Center suggests three locations: the front lobby at the Paula Scher Mural, the Fountain outside and in front of the MLK mural near the second floor stairs.”},{“_id”:”HYTQSXCGW5GKJHQMFEFVLJJKVI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006743},”type”:”text”,”content”:”What else do you need to know? The Center says, “People are always curious about the event spaces we offer. The Center provides a unique venue space that accommodates everything from corporate events and conferences, to weddings, holiday parties and intimate dinners. Anyone may rent the entire facility, including our exhibit spaces, or simply utilize our state-of-the-art Special Event Room and Pre-Function Lobby.””},{“_id”:”OSP3UGHFUFDFXLW2U7QNBSKB7I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1612471006744},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Insider tip: Before you visit the Center, check out their social media accounts to see what you can expect. 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Those skills were utilized on American plantations, where enslaved Black midwives delivered the babies of their white masters, as well as other slaves.”},{“_id”:”YKJLY7WHBRBPLDWRUJQDQUSOMA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611846414151},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Birthing was about breeding,” said Jamarah Amani, co-founder of the National Black Midwives Alliance, a professional association that’s currently shooting a documentary about Black midwives in the South. “There was a significant investment from the slaveowners to have healthy births and babies so they could keep their property alive.””},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”A midwife goes on a call, carrying her kit, near Siloam in Greene County, Ga., in October 1941. 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They would coach moms-to-be on how to prepare for their new arrivals, monitor their health and sometimes act as spiritual counselors. When delivery was imminent, the birth workers would walk miles to a pregnant woman’s home and sometimes stay for days, soothing their clients and caring for their other children until the baby came.”},{“_id”:”3WKTJ7N3MBH27ERKGEEZOF6VFQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067183},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“They were really the caretakers in their communities when Black folks didn’t have access to doctors and preferred to go to midwives because of the level of trust,” said Amani, who’s also a licensed midwife in Florida.”},{“_id”:”SXPOTWKDMJFBPHO7IPB3AUNRFM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067184},”type”:”text”,”content”:”For their efforts, the women were paid little, sometimes a few dollars per delivery. 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Black mothers in Georgia are three to four times more likely to die in the first year after giving birth than their white counterparts, regardless of education or income.”},{“_id”:”DHK7VQQ4LJD4NNESW63LK4MGW4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987502},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Deep-rooted social inequalities are mainly to blame, from lack of access to healthy food to doctors who systematically play down their pain. Early, attentive and culturally sensitive care from providers is believed to make a major difference.”},{“_id”:”XO6ZWVFTKNAZROPHRCPZVYD6OQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611873022574},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Christine Taylor, owner of the midwifery practice Birth by Grace in Fayette County, said she often hears an “audible sigh” when she meets with new Black patients “because they automatically feel safe and comfortable and they know they can relate to this person who looks like them and understands them better.””},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”Jenni Girtman”,”address”:{},”caption”:”Birth by Grace Midwifery holds a class where Parish Munroe (left) is shown massage techniques by Christine Taylor on mother-to-be Kiah Munroe in Peachtree City on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. The families are planning home births under the guidance of Taylor, a certified nurse-midwife, and doula Dawn Hutcherson. 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With hospitals packed and doulas and family members locked out of delivery rooms, some women are looking for options where they can have their support system with them.”},{“_id”:”APISIIXXJVHODIOK6NLZ7J2KUQ”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”KQB7XWNMEJGX5FSTUD75DRWTXU”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/local/tuskegee-experimented-black-men-with-syphilis-for-years/t9gsMkuwCIVqn2IjeYariP/”,”content”:”At Tuskegee, U.S. experimented on Black men with syphilis for 40 years”},{“_id”:”QVNNPVSD7ZEPXJ5TYS6C762Y3Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067213},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Legislative fighting”},{“_id”:”PH67WQ44MNA3ZADWSY5CIIQ24Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067214},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Taylor, who grew up in Chicago, has a different background from Henderson and Amani. She’s a certified nurse-midwife, with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s in midwifery.”},{“_id”:”F57AXQAUVZGQZIVK2FUQZ77Q2Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067215},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The state of Georgia licenses midwives like Taylor through the Board of Nursing. (There were about 550 of them in the state in 2018, according to the Georgia affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.)”},{“_id”:”OJILU4HIUNEYXD7GQYTKZNF7UE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611873022580},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But unlike roughly three dozen other states, Georgia does not license any direct-entry midwives.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”Ben Gray”,”address”:{},”caption”:”Atlanta-based Sarahn Henderson, who has been a midwife for 41 years and has extensively researched the history of Black midwives in the South, looks through an illustrated “Manual for Midwives” textbook once used by the Georgia Department of Public Health. 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That same year, a separate well-known but unlicensed midwife was issued a cease-and-desist order and threatened with fines by the Georgia Board of Nursing for calling herself a midwife. (The woman, Debbie Pulley, was a top official at the North American Registry of Midwives, an accredited certification group, and was non-practicing. Pulley sued the nursing board.)”},{“_id”:”SMYGS3DYV5BLBHSCHVMDYFAFKI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611939082246},”type”:”text”,”content”:”One bill introduced in the Georgia House that year would have licensed midwives certified by the Registry, which requires applicants to complete an apprenticeship or midwifery training program and pass a test.”},{“_id”:”SBLPN3XOGFE6VJJGGVUMRBZ7BQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987512},”type”:”text”,”content”:”That idea was fought by some Black direct-entry midwives who learned their crafts in a less formal way. Many found the Registry and other large midwifery organizations unwelcoming and their tests biased. They argued that linking licensure to that type of certification would be exclusionary to midwives of color with limited finances.”},{“_id”:”OCSJZP7EYFF5JL7VGTZTX3KHNM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611840067220},”type”:”text”,”content”:”That group converged around a separate measure introduced by state Sen. Lester Jackson, D-Savannah, last year that would have licensed a broader cross section of direct-entry midwives.”},{“_id”:”IIRX6LXHXBHMPORPDVI3HZ7JYE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987514},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We want to make sure that people who practice midwifery can practice their craft and do it without fear of being arrested for breaking any laws,” said Jackson, whose grandmother and great-grandmother practiced midwifery in Wheeler County.”},{“_id”:”G2Y4GPISW5BN7NGT7LQH4SJDGA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987515},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Jackson said a compromise bill is in the works that would license many types of direct-entry midwives, not just those certified by the Registry. He hopes the Legislature’s passage of a maternal mortality bill last year will increase demand for his midwifery proposal.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”State Sen. 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That would be a boon for the birth workers, some of of whom struggle to make ends meet.”},{“_id”:”TXDM7NJDCJDCRFJEUX6BNUARLU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987518},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Insurance coverage for home births, meanwhile, can be spotty.”},{“_id”:”B3U3YHL2QFHEFDLTFXVQZL4ISM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611953629730},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Legislature’s licensure efforts, however, have attracted opponents in the influential Georgia OBGYN Society and Medical Association of Georgia. The latter believes that prenatal services not delivered by doctors or certified nurse-midwives should be prohibited. (Certified nurse-midwives almost always work in hospitals and clinics under the tutelage of doctors. Their trade groups have long pushed for more autonomy.)”},{“_id”:”AEAAX6QKTJHAJETIHKZKAAG4DY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1611883987520},”type”:”text”,”content”:”There’s long been simmering distrust between doctors and midwives. Midwives argue doctors often intervene unnecessarily during birth, all too often approving invasive procedures like cesarean sections. 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The 8-foot statue, one mile from King’s birthplace, overlooks Liberty Plaza and stands uneasily beside a number of segregationists who are also venerated on the Capitol grounds. The project was championed by Gov. Nathan Deal and Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus), who stands center in this photo, with his hand on the statue. The Legislature approved the tribute as long as no taxpayer funds were used. The original sculptor, Andy Davis, died before the project could be completed. He was replaced by Martin Dawe, who based the pose and likeness on a famous photo of King walking with Bayard Rustin in Montgomery, Ala.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:””Homage to King,” by Barcelona artist Xavier Medina-Campeny. (William Berry / AJC file)”,”source”:{“system”:”Methode”,”source_type”:”other”,”source_id”:”8d5e230d-07a5-4805-ada4-c29efc016d2d”,”additional_properties”:{“editor”:”photo center”}},”type”:”image”,”distributor”:{“mode”:”reference”,”reference_id”:”8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019″},”version”:”0.10.3″,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”licensable”:false,”display_date”:”2015-01-14T17:17:56Z”,”credits”:{“by”:[{“name”:”William Berry / AJC file”,”type”:”author”,”byline”:”William Berry / AJC file”,”slug”:”william-berry-ajc-file”}]},”subtitle”:”MLK statues: Atlanta”,”width”:2112,”first_publish_date”:”2015-01-14T17:17:56Z”,”_id”:”NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME”,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/photo/resize/H3PeqTZaKQi4-pQB7E5DlMNPOAI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”comments”:[],”keywords”:[“taxon:news”,”ajc-hottopics”],”proxyUrl”:”/photo/resize/H3PeqTZaKQi4-pQB7E5DlMNPOAI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”takenOn”:”2015-01-14T17:17:56Z”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”https://thumbor-prod-us-east-1.photo.aws.arc.pub/H3PeqTZaKQi4-pQB7E5DlMNPOAI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”/resizer/D–rOtSG36zrefjbdcuuLYa46CM=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NE3WH2QSGUY4T7HVX4DQYXMFME.jpg”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”https://www.ajc.com//rw/Pub/p6/AJC/2015/01/14/Images/photos.medleyphoto.6654999.jpg”,”mime_type”:”image/jpeg”,”restricted”:false,”galleries”:[{“headlines”:{“basic”:”Photos: Martin Luther King statues around the country (and beyond)”},”_id”:”YATEV5LNEPU66TDLE62E6Z2SUI”}],”_id”:1610722786516},”created_date”:”2020-06-20T17:46:08Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2020-06-20T17:46:08Z”,”publish_date”:”2015-01-18T21:19:39Z”,”height”:1788},{“_id”:”E5EDEEOPBJD55FPMZC3J6DC3MQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1610722786517},”type”:”text”,”content”:”ATLANTA: “Homage to King,” by Barcelona artist Xavier Medina-Campeny, was installed at Boulevard and Freedom Parkway right before the 1996 Olympics.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The statue of Dr. King on the Morehouse College campus by Denver sculptor Ed Dwight. 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Inspired by the work of National Geographic photographers, he came to the United States to study photography. He thought his time in the U.S. would be brief, but photography took him to California and eventually, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He took his oath of citizenship in 2017.”,”_id”:”hyosub-shin”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“lastName”:”Shin”,”image”:”https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/ajc/c11e1a9b-4044-4e58-8682-1696d9e8b7e3.png”,”role”:”Multimedia journalist”,”education”:[],”longBio”:”Hyosub Shin was born and raised in South Korea. Inspired by the work of National Geographic photographers, he came to the United States to study photography and joined the AJC photo staff in 2007.  He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York with a BS degree in Advertising Photography and Ohio University with a MA degree in Photojournalism. 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Dwight, who also composed the bronze sculpture of Hank Aaron outside Turner field, said that at the time, the King bronze was only the third sculpture he’d ever done. After he showed an early form of the work to Morehouse faculty who’d known Dr. King, Dwight said he had to make major changes to the work, some of which he does not agree with to this day. “But they were the client and I had to do it their way,” he said.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”King’s statue on the National Mall by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. 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Critics complained that the 30-foot-tall White granite statue by Chinese artist Lei Yixin was too stern, too big in scale and too close in the Social Realist style. An investigation also found that the statue had been constructed by unpaid Chinese laborers. Another part of the artwork, the “Stone of Hope” seen in the background, originally had an edited version of King’s famous “drum major” quotation carved into it. Planners had tried to fit the quote onto the stone by making it shorter, but ended up changing its meaning. Once it was decided that the carved quote could not be replaced, it was removed entirely from the stone in 2013.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The bronze MLK bust in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. 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In the early 1960s, Chicago, with its heavily segregated neighborhoods, became a target of the Civil Rights Movement. King and the SCLC made a tumultuous stand in the Windy City which inspired the Fair Housing Act. To honor the campaign, Chicago artist Geraldine McCullough was commissioned to create a memorial to King. She chose to depict him as an African king of Benin tribal origin. He’s adorned with a dove of peace, a sword and a rendering of King’s Nobel Prize. Erected in 1977 outside Martin Luther King Plaza Apartments, the statue stood until it was moved into storage about four years ago, its concrete base crumbling. McCullough later created another sculpture of King for Springfield, Ill.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The MLK statue in Springfield, Ill. by Geraldine McCullough.”,”source”:{“system”:”Methode”,”source_type”:”other”,”source_id”:”84063186-1726-11e8-8401-ed4dfe8ebc2c”,”additional_properties”:{“editor”:”photo center”}},”type”:”image”,”distributor”:{“mode”:”reference”,”reference_id”:”8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019″},”version”:”0.10.3″,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”licensable”:false,”display_date”:”2018-02-21T16:44:42Z”,”credits”:{},”subtitle”:”Photos: Martin Luther King statues around the country (and beyond)”,”width”:528,”first_publish_date”:”2018-02-21T16:44:42Z”,”_id”:”U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4″,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/photo/resize/iApsKDyNNXjIPZf5DYnmS4mC8fc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”comments”:[],”keywords”:[“mlk50″,”spcontent”,”sp-blackhistorymlk”,”re:race”,”georgia-news.ajc”,”black history”],”proxyUrl”:”/photo/resize/iApsKDyNNXjIPZf5DYnmS4mC8fc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”takenOn”:”2018-02-21T16:44:42Z”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”https://thumbor-prod-us-east-1.photo.aws.arc.pub/iApsKDyNNXjIPZf5DYnmS4mC8fc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”/resizer/7EzGb8jEzldIP_wTY8q6jE89wOI=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/U4UWEU5JTE3KJC37SEOP2NQEQ4.jpg”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”https://www.ajc.com//rw/Pub/p9/AJC/2018/02/21/Images/MLK%20statue%20Springfield.jpg”,”mime_type”:”image/jpeg”,”restricted”:false,”galleries”:[],”_id”:1610722786526},”created_date”:”2020-06-28T15:02:26Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2020-06-28T15:02:26Z”,”publish_date”:”2018-02-21T16:44:42Z”,”height”:387},{“_id”:”MRKFEC5YNNBQBA6I2CFL2NUGTY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1610722786527},”type”:”text”,”content”:”SPRINGFIELD, Illinois: In 1988, Geraldine McCullough completed this bronze of King, a realistic portrayal of the man as a young activist, his collar open, suit jacket slung over his shoulder. This piece is on the Illinois capitol grounds in Springfield. Like other sculptures of King, however, over the years it has been vandalized.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The Allentown, Penn. sculpture of the Kings by Ed Dwight. 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In it, the couple marches forward, eyes on the horizon, her hand grasping the bend of his arm. An Allentown community activist named Harry A. Roberts spent 15 years trying to bring a statue of the King couple to his hometown, but he died three years before the statue was unveiled in the park that now bears his name. The sculptor, Ed Dwight, has done at least eight sculptures of Dr. King, from Denver to Allentown. Dwight was an advisor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., before he left the project and became its biggest critic. Among his criticisms was the sheer scale of the project. He said it didn’t show King’s humanity. (Mark Luethi Photography)”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The Pueblo, Colo. sculptures of MLK and Emmett Till by sculptor Ed Rose. 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But what got Coloradans talking about the piece when it was originally placed in a Denver park, was the less than life-like rendering of King by the late sculptor Ed Rose. (Rose died in Loganville, GA, in 2009). What really bothered people was the size of King’s head relative to the rest of his body. According to an obituary for Rose in the Denver Post, the foundation that commissioned the piece was so disappointed in the statue it refused to pay Rose. (He got his $35,000 payment after suing the foundation). The piece was so polarizing that it was eventually moved into storage then to a cultural center named for King in Pueblo, Colo. Denver eventually commissioned a new sculpture of King by Ed Dwight. Dwight’s version is thought to be the largest rendering of King outside Washington, D.C.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The Denver sculpture of MLK and other figures, by Ed Dwight. 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All of the people depicted toward the base of the sculpture influenced King in some way and were champions of human rights: Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi and Rosa Parks. The bronze and granite work was dedicated in 2002 and stands in the Denver City Park.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The bust of MLK in front of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala. 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(Duvernay made sure to film around the statue for a scene that took place in front of the church.) The church was the local SCLC meeting place during the Civil Rights Movement, and was the starting point of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches depicted in the film.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The MLK statue in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Ala. 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The park sits across from the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls died in a 1963 firebombing. The park itself was the staging ground for several of Birmingham’s largest Civil Rights Movement protests, and where Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor notoriously turned firehoses and police dogs on protesters. No wonder King seems to solidly stand his ground in this statue.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”An MLK statue outside the city hall of Tuzla in Bosnia. 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Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Those words, by Martin Luther King, Jr., are inscribed on the pedestal of a statue outside the city hall of Tuzla in Bosnia. The bronze on granite bust was a gift of the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo to the country that had come through a horrific period of war and genocide. It was dedicated in 2003.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”PENSACOLA, FLA.:  The MLK statue by Ayokunle Odeleye. 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Odeleye, who has created major public art works across the nation, said Yolanda King visited his studio at least twice to look at the image before it was cast in bronze and to make suggestions. Odeleye said she told him she wanted input because she had gone to unveilings of other monuments to her father, looked at the sculptures and said “Now who is that?””},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”CHARLOTTE: A statue of MLK by famed African-American artist Selma Burke. 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Martin Luther King, Sr. must have thought something of it, however — Daddy King was present at its dedication in 1980. The sculpture was created by African-American artist Selma Burke, who also designed FDR’s portrait on the dime. You can see examples of her work at Spelman and Clark-Atlanta.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The MLK carving above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey in London. 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King has a different expression on the four faces protruding from the stainless steel globe. The globe reflects the face of the viewer and, according to Clay’s obituary the viewer’s reflection is to be a reminder that “we are all one people.” But since its dedication in 1989, the piece has been defaced with paint at least once. The pedestal is inscribed with excerpts from King’s speeches. Ironically, Clay, a children’s book illustrator, was honored in 1993 with the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Honor Award. The honor was for his work on the book, “Little Eight John.””},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”A life-sized statue in Raleigh’s MLK Memorial Gardens. 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It’s literally down-to-earth, so that anyone can touch and interact with it. The memorial also includes a bubbling “water monument,” next to King’s quote, “… until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a might stream.””},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”Before and after models of the Rocky Mount statue of MLK. 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From the minute the statue was unveiled in 2003, it seemed to split the little town — were King first spoke the words “I have a dream”– in two. People said it looked nothing like King. Residents wanted a replacement. The statue was taken down. Another artist was drafted to create a new statue (before and after models shown here, with the new on the left). Nobody liked his draft either. Finally, in 2007, the Rocky Mt. City Council voted to reinstate the original statue in a city park.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The MLK statue at the University of Texas at Austin. 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Now that it looks as good as new, civic groups have plans to add educational elements to the monument.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”The “Landmark for Peace Memorial” in MLK Memorial Park in Indianapolis. 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We had an #oldtownroad miracle at my house. My son Daniel has #autism and doesn’t talk. We caught him humming the @LilNasX and @billyraycyrus tune the other day. Then Bless God, my baby started singing the song on his own. His therapists have started to use it in his sessions! pic.twitter.com/vtCNWeg6ax

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“},{“_id”:”ZPWX2D6LJJEMHFYTTYPBUOG4II”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”RELATED: How “School Daze” made HBCUs matter”},{“_id”:”V6YCR35RGNEYHE6JHGPOTIGJR4″,”additional_properties”:{“data-eom-type”:”bookmark”,”id”:”em_23_end”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”DSLTKGYAWRF35K5VP4P6B2N5FQ”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Opening less than 10 years after he graduated from Morehouse, every single frame in the movie resonated deeply and emotionally with anybody who called an HBCU home. Only his second film, it set the stylistic foundation for every Lee project since. Said Lee to the AJC: “I can’t count how many people who told me they went to a black school because of ‘School Daze.’ People come up to me and say, ‘Spike, you changed my life.’””},{“_id”:”3OIE5UJFMJF2VA4UHFWHZWEWNA”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Character(s): Dap and Big Brother Almighty, two sides of the same coin.”},{“_id”:”V6AWISV7ERER7JE7CMHMBIXXDM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Quote: Dap: “Wake Up!””},{“_id”:”MJAORQCJOVF3HEQ6AHOFM5VY3M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”WVSL2L2UBFHFRLFXCZS7UPX72E”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”4. “Jungle Fever” (1991):”},{“_id”:”THDZSH3W4NGSZE6ZBC32ENWQ5M”,”additional_properties”:{“id”:”U02108814220qKQ”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”

“},{“_id”:”I65MDNFNGFHRBHAQT3ABRJXTWI”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”RELATED: The art and grace of Ruby Dee“},{“_id”:”GQO7XZBU7BG6LM6DROZQX3CCQA”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”People walked into this movie expecting a love story between a brother from Harlem and a white girl from Bensonhurst. But the real love story was between Lucinda Purify and her crack-addled son Gator. Samuel L. Jackson won best supporting actor at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, but the great Ruby Dee won our hearts when she got on her knees and wailed “Mommy’s here,” to painfully mourn and cradle her dying son.”},{“_id”:”P4QUEMNMZZG65AESEFZLERX4ZU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Character: Gator, the crack addict.”},{“_id”:”DHGQCUNLB5CALEMPFITDUFLQNE”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Quote: Gator Purify: “Mama, I smoked the color TV!””},{“_id”:”N5LSY7M3RNARHG26VX2RQTBRF4″,”type”:”text”,”content”:”3. “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986):”},{“_id”:”LB5JLQ5SYZBIRF5CRO6QUCA3DA”,”additional_properties”:{“id”:”U22753805527xVI”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”

“},{“_id”:”5A62HTAM7FFKPELWEZ6I6TONCU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Fresh out of film school, Lee raised $175,000 to shoot his black-and-white debut about a woman who juggles three lovers effortlessly until she doesn’t. This was Spike’s official introduction to the world, and marked the beginning of a new era of black film making. It also gave us perhaps Lee’s greatest character: Mars Blackmon.”},{“_id”:”AREVA3GM7BD2HHIT43G44QSZ5M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Quote: Nola Darling: “It’s really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it? Them? Or me? I’m not a one-man woman. Bottom line.””},{“_id”:”5CQPD3KDARELRNJT74QSN67O7I”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”2. “Do the Right Thing” (1989):”},{“_id”:”KMNE35U4UNFE7JDHWB67EFXERY”,”additional_properties”:{“id”:”U15382687047VZO”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”

“},{“_id”:”ATTN57HJMZDRXDDWYGM2U62DKY”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”RELATED: Why Lee’s masterwork “Do the Right Thing,” matters more than ever now “},{“_id”:”DO3MY2D35RAAJOXLTGF2IL5CPY”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Brooklyn. Sweltering heat. Patriarchal shop owner with hints of gentrification. Mookie. Public Enemy. Radio Raheem. Da Mayor. Buggin’ Out. Sal. Frank Sinatra. Chaos. Chokehold. Riot. Classic.”},{“_id”:”LQI6L6KM5FCBXA7DHGALRWBNOA”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Character: Mookie, the pizza delivery man.”},{“_id”:”GX3HJXA2ZFGVJI5REFAXDUFPMI”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Quote: Buggin’ Out: “How come ain’t no brothers on the wall?””},{“_id”:”BAXSE7KCSNC5VIHLD6HBK3TYLM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”1. “Malcolm X” (1992):”},{“_id”:”FIXSJWBE45FLPKG5HB6YDVNXNM”,”additional_properties”:{“id”:”U23342417040hKN”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”

“},{“_id”:”VC6L4YHIBNHOZBVZQL7SI2EWWQ”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”This is the masterpiece Spike Lee was born to make. Clocking in at over three hours, Lee’s biopic of the charismatic leader is epic on every conceivable level. Starring Denzel in the title role, the movie avoids the typical biopic traps and allows the audience to watch the hero change in ways that are difficult, challenging, uncompromising and in Lee’s style, funny. It is still a shame that Denzel didn’t win an Academy Award for best actor.”},{“_id”:”CTQB2OBXXZE5LESGXQYWFDBYFI”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Character: Malcolm X, the icon.”},{“_id”:”BG3WGI5ZW5C3FLGOMRCIDV4OOM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Key Quote: Malcolm X: “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. 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Unlike Garner, who was stopped for selling loose cigarettes, Radio Raheem, played by Morehouse College graduate Bill Nunn, never said a word, instead spitting and gagging as the life was choked out of him.”},{“_id”:”N3IDAYL3UNHXTNUQOBMNOQNSHQ”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”“When I saw the video of it, I was not the only one who thought of the choke hold of Radio Raheem in my film ‘Do the Right Thing,’” Spike Lee told the BBC in 2014. “What you have is that amongst communities of color in the United States there is a deep mistrust of the police departments. 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Critics agree that “The BlacKkKlansman” is very good and deserving of all its accolades.”},{“_id”:”NB66CU425NCH7BKMBPBV6FNIIU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”But they also agree, with perhaps a strong argument from the “Malcolm X” camp, that “Do the Right Thing” is Lee’s masterpiece. Don’t be distracted that the year “Do the Right Thing” should have been nominated, “Driving Miss Daisy” won the Oscar for best picture.”},{“_id”:”MWQFOTYRHBHLHNW2E7Y2TT3NQM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Opening on July 21, 1989, “Do the Right Thing” was a sweltering look at a Brooklyn block on the hottest day of the year and the tension the heat and simmering racial issues unleashed.”},{“_id”:”Z2PFGVSWYNAGNK36B6PHFLKORA”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Centered around the Italian-owned Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, Lee filled the block with characters that could have come from a Zora Neale Hurston novel: Mother Sister, the neighborhood watcher; Da Mayor, the neighborhood drunk; Mookie, the neighborhood slacker; Coconut Sid, ML and Sweet Dick Willie, the neighborhood chorus; with Mister Señor Love Daddy providing the neighborhood soundtrack — but only when Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” wasn’t blaring out of Radio Raheem’s massive boombox.”},{“_id”:”E3KFFP7DDNF6BGW5Z3ZDOAOV6M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”RELATED: How Fight the Power became an anthem”},{“_id”:”23Z3RJ3MVRHCBBFAWPMS3HGGL4″,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Filmed in reds and yellows to signify the heat, the movie’s premise hinged on one question dripping with irony, race, patronage, privilege and Brooklyn’s past and future with gentrification: “How come you ain’t got no brothers up on the wall?””},{“_id”:”WTWMGYKSSVFINHOMJMPJ7YRRXY”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Moments before engulfing a slice of pizza, Buggin’ Out, played brilliantly by Giancarlo Esposito, notices that in the overwhelmingly black Bed-Stuy neighborhood, photographs of Frank Sinatra, Michael Corleone, Robert DeNiro and Joe DiMaggio beam down on him from the walls of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria.”},{“_id”:”FAQD2EUYINAM3J4KKWY6CKGWWY”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”The question sets off a series of subtle but increasingly menacing events as everyone in the neighborhood struggles to “always do the right thing.””},{“_id”:”IKCWV5T56VB77EKYOTXXNWMIRE”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Should Buggin’ Out and others in the neighborhood have a say in whose photos go up on the wall? 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It is not cartoon mayhem. It can be characterized as spur-of-the-moment aggression, echoing what occurred in Bensonhurst and Howard Beach. It is the kind of reactionary violence that changes lives and divides cities.””},{“_id”:”IY3ZW6K7OBFSTED6GK5U2TV55Y”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”George’s reference to Bensonhurst and Howard Beach is Lee using art to imitate life.”},{“_id”:”SMX3M7GOQNENBCSYP6XRASFDCI”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 1986, 23-year-old Michael Griffith was killed in the Howard Beach section of Queens after being hit by a car as he was chased onto a highway by a mob of white youths who had beaten him and his friends. In August 1989, just a month after “Do the Right Thing” came out, Yusuf Hawkins, a black 16-year-old, was shot to death in the Italian-American working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, after being attacked by a crowd of up to 30 white youths.”},{“_id”:”5V6NDCSEDNHRVGLWRR5DNCDMSU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Fast-forward 25 years and you have the ongoing spate of black deaths at the hands of law enforcement. After Eric Garner came Michael Brown, then Laquan McDonald, then Tamir Rice, then Walter Scott, then Freddie Gray, then Sandra Bland, then Philando Castille, then Alton Sterling … and the list keeps growing.”},{“_id”:”2IZ6S54WJFB5PIJLFBIK6WJSBM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2018, researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California wrote in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health that while whites constitute more than half of the people killed by police in the United States, blacks and Hispanics die at a disproportionately higher rate based on the overall population.”},{“_id”:”PMONBJ3K6VGJJFBREUOZVTL63E”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Back in 2014, about two months after Garner’s death, Spike Lee found himself once again in the editing room with “Do the Right Thing,” which the Library of Congress had selected for preservation in the National Film Registry because it was deemed “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.””},{“_id”:”VZO5CMW6TVGRDJQN6OSJOZSM7M”,”additional_properties”:{“id”:”U24857414887WBr”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_rm3ai9Og“},{“_id”:”SJNMNVBWXFGZRPZ75FGGDEMKAY”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”This time he was splicing the video of Garner’s choking with his footage of Radio Raheem being choked.”},{“_id”:”456KYVDY3NFNDLXDP4OTLR773A”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”It was disturbing how similar they were.”},{“_id”:”T2VJ4UDQWZF7FEJJ4NBU65UA4U”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”But perhaps more disturbing was how seamless the edit was.”},{“_id”:”47FP4KXZZZAF3KFPDDEJE3WDH4″,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Black History Month”},{“_id”:”2L2KXFXDHJHZTKOT2MNOK6O53A”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Throughout February, the AJC will spotlight a different African-American pioneer in the daily Living section Monday through Thursday and Saturday, and in the Metro section on Fridays and Sundays. Click here to read AJC Sepia’s Black History Month Series and for more subscriber exclusives on people, places and organizations that have changed the world, and to see videos on the African-American pioneer featured here each day.”},{“_id”:”ZILXTB4OW5EKJHVFZAHEHYOPQM”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”PODCAST | How to celebrate Black History Month in Atlanta”},{“_id”:”IV6L53HATRFSPKC6XNC4MAVH3M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”MOVIE’S MEMORABLE LINES”},{“_id”:”SYAMG3SFI5FIXFKZSRQY4PIOEA”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Buggin’ Out: Hey, Sal, how come they ain’t no brothas on the wall?”},{“_id”:”GW6K5Q6EOVDSHBBN7SG7475EVU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Mister Señor Love Daddy: Today’s temperature’s gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there’s a Jheri curl alert! That’s right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you’ll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!”},{“_id”:”XAKTQVX3VJEJFNI62MPSOVJM4E”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Da Mayor: Those that’ll tell don’t know, and those that know won’t tell.”},{“_id”:”EKDGOE4LZZFCFHEEDNOB5GNXXQ”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Radio Raheem: (while playing “Fight the Power” loudly in Sal’s pizzeria) Two slices.”},{“_id”:”ZANIDN5Y4BGBHCWSGLVWXM7H6M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Mother Sister: Mother Sister’s always watching!”},{“_id”:”4LFTOLDLVZDSTE7KG6HR6TYXWU”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Pino: (describing the neighborhood) I detest this place like a sickness.”},{“_id”:”PUOTCJJIVFF5PE3YZY6KOQQBPI”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”• Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It’s a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. 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You know how people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they received terrible news. “The baby was sick and I was filling the croup kettle when I heard about Pearl Harbor on the radio.” … “I was mopping the floor when a neighbor called across the street and told me President Roosevelt was dead.” … “I stopped by the florist to buy some flowers and she said, ‘Did you hear about somebody shooting John Kennedy?'””},{“_id”:”3VSGMAGR5JB5HEMNUXBXCQD7YQ”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”It is the same with the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The fact of his assassination is no less terrible but to accept it people somehow have to go back and tell you how it was with them when they heard the news.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”Celestine Sibley at her desk in November 1995. 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Static made me turn off the radio but it was lonesome on the dark rain-swept highway (John, the 5-year-old, had been asleep on the back seat since we stopped for a hamburger in Montgomery.) So I fiddled with the dial hoping for some news and then I got a fragment or two about a shooting somewhere. It was many minutes before the crack of lightning and the roar of the wind and rain let the whole story come through. Dr. Martin Luther King, a kind man, an eloquent man, gone.”},{“_id”:”GNBOURVHXJCUBIJDFGIED4H56I”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”The lights of a truck stop were just ahead and I pulled off and sat there. The impulse of all newspaper reporters is to call the office when news of a great moment happens — to ask, “Do you need me? Shall I come in?” But I was more than 300 miles away with a sleeping child on the back seat and other children ahead, waiting for me. The need for any services of mine would be over by the time I could get back so I sat there by the Mississippi truck stop, watching the rain make mud out of the parking area, watching the big trucks pull in to wait out the rain, and thinking about Dr. King.”},{“_id”:”34HYXV6P4VGQJI7C2UVHXI6L6M”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”My personal acquaintance with him was so slight. He had done me a favor once and I couldn’t remember if I’d ever thanked him for it. My youngest daughter was but 14 or 15 at the time and urgently concerned to have a hand in making things better for downtrodden people. It wasn’t enough to carry a sign with pickets. She wanted to fill our house with hungry and homeless people. She wanted to be a freedom rider. And one day when I thought she was safe in summer school, making up history which she was failing, she caught a bus for Montgomery.”},{“_id”:”7I47LG33EBGNNIN4O6FLRBCAV4″,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Frightened and frantic, I called Dr. King. With his own people being beaten and killed my concern for my little white child might well have amused him. It didn’t. “She’s got to LEARN history before she can MAKE it!” I wailed. He said he would find her and talk to her and within a few hours one of his aides took her to the Montgomery airport, boarded a plane with her and brought her home.”},{“_id”:”L6E5CYHAHFFZPOFB4PGVHJGBVE”,”type”:”text”,”content”:”Sitting there by the truck stop I wished I had done something to help his cause. 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Atlanta editor and columnist Ralph McGill’s editorial from page 1 of the April 5, 1968 Atlanta Constitution, titled “A Free Man Killed by White Slaves,” is reprinted here.”},{“_id”:”ESEEUUK5N5HYRIZ6DNC425I2J4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248346},”type”:”text”,”content”:”White slaves killed Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis.”},{“_id”:”UXA5MWIOBZEFNKKOQDY6COOJEY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248347},”type”:”text”,”content”:”At the moment the triggerman fired, Martin Luther King was the free man. The white killer (or killers) was a slave to his own sense of inferiority, a slave to hatred, a slave to all the bloody instincts that surge in a brain when a human being decides to become a beast.”},{“_id”:”6MR5TRLS2BDATFNLUMQLEWEFNA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248348},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In the wake of this disaster in Memphis, a great many such slaves must consider if they wish to continue serving their masters of fear, hate, inferiority, and beastliness. It is something of an irony that Dr. King was free and hated by so many slaves. It is perhaps too much to hope, but much of the violent reaction to this bloody murder could be blunted if in every city and town there would now be a resolve to remove what remains of injustice and racial prejudice from schools, from training and job opportunities, from housing and community life in general.”},{“_id”:”AJOHOEZKMJDJXARZ4HLAKXXY4I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248349},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Nonviolence”},{“_id”:”N3GPG7ORMVDWZGC6CEMMNZ57SA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248350},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Dr. King’s voice was the last one arguing for nonviolence. The young militants respected him enough to pledge him they would accept his leadership in the summer ahead.”},{“_id”:”NQGP6J2PLNDX7CCEFREKLR2LVE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248351},”type”:”text”,”content”:”And now?”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”workflow”:{“status_code”:4},”caption”:”Ralph McGill’s newspaper column from The Atlanta Constitution on April 5, 1968, the day after the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. (AJC archives)”,”source”:{“system”:”Methode”,”source_type”:”other”,”source_id”:”e4035bc0-368b-11e8-b91a-9b7b28b8684e”,”additional_properties”:{“editor”:”photo center”}},”type”:”image”,”distributor”:{“mode”:”reference”,”reference_id”:”8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019″},”version”:”0.10.3″,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”licensable”:false,”display_date”:”2018-04-02T15:38:29Z”,”credits”:{},”subtitle”:”Ralph McGill: A Free Man Killed by White Slaves”,”width”:332,”first_publish_date”:”2018-04-02T15:38:29Z”,”_id”:”N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU”,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/photo/resize/M4DU0fJw0nvnTHVh2U01BRtj2Fo=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”comments”:[],”keywords”:[“MLK50″,”black history”,”black community”,”atlanta-news-metro.ajc”,”sp-blackhistorymlk”,”spcontent”,”blackhistory”,”audience-seo”],”proxyUrl”:”/photo/resize/M4DU0fJw0nvnTHVh2U01BRtj2Fo=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”takenOn”:”2018-04-02T15:38:29Z”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”https://thumbor-prod-us-east-1.photo.aws.arc.pub/M4DU0fJw0nvnTHVh2U01BRtj2Fo=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”https://thumbor-prod-us-east-1.photo.aws.arc.pub/crWots6WZ0hiDWhxJf_Ll3zVuR0=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/N7MYZYRUT44WN3WXL3T7WBM4LU.png”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”https://www.ajc.com//rw/Pub/p9/AccessAtlanta/2018/04/02/Images/ralph-mcgill-1968-mlk.PNG”,”mime_type”:”image/png”,”restricted”:false,”galleries”:[],”_id”:1603766248352},”created_date”:”2020-06-28T08:22:48Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2020-06-28T08:22:48Z”,”publish_date”:”2018-04-02T15:38:29Z”,”height”:543},{“_id”:”OSFQ3J5SLRD53NVYLMWNA4J3Y4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248353},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The old ghost of John Brown whispers out of the by-gone years. He was a white man and a violent one. He was hanged after his foolish foray at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the autumn of 1859. Brown was the martyr. His death was a catalyst. His soul became a cutting edge that broke hearts and walls as the great war came on with a rush. One frets with that memory.”},{“_id”:”DT4YDEK6HBCZPJHUSLGERX5FRI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248354},”type”:”text”,”content”:”There are other effects of martrydoms.”},{“_id”:”GPR2XWZTOVDJTLQK5QE7W2SLNM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248355},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Dr. King would not want his death to be an emotion that brought on what he had all his life opposed — violence and death. Atlanta’s mayor Ivan Allen, who drove his car through a rain-swept city to the home of Dr. King and took the stunned wife to the airport where she learned that death had come in Memphis, was another symbol of the South. He, too, was a free man. 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If injustice and inequity, if racist prejudices and discrimination now become the targets of all decent men and women, Dr. King’s death may bring about what he sought for himself, his people and country.”},{“_id”:”PWT6DZ4WARAJJIJTXNXOHM5LFE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248361},”type”:”text”,”content”:”If this does not happen, then slaves who serve masters of hatred, fear and evil will have to be put down mercilessly and immediately.”},{“_id”:”7AGCYBOP5RBIXDCAIBH7PZAGSY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248362},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Out of martrydom must come the right answer.”},{“_id”:”36JEXYPFDJGNFCE6K7UJUBY3NU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1603766248363},”type”:”text”,”content”:”RELATED: Ralph McGill’s column about the 1963 March on 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