"These two phenomena, Civil War and Civil rights, were often like planets in separate orbits around separate suns.... The power of king's rhetoric, broke down the segregated gravitational pulls of those two planets.
" – Dr. David Blight
David W. Blight, Professor, Department of History at Yale University, speaks about his book titled "AMERICAN ORACLE: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era."
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