The Next Generation
When Deval Patrick was 6 or 7, his mother took him to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak in a park on Chicago's South Side. Patrick, now 52 and serving as the first African American governor of Massachusetts, says he does not recall a single word of King's speech. But he does remember "what it felt like" to be in that park: "Nothing but hope."
Patrick's reminiscence -- described by PBS television reporter Gwen Ifill in her perceptive new book, The ...
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