Wallyhood’s Jordan Schwartz has a King Day post up that is worth your time.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My full, legal name is Jordan Luther King Schwartz. Kind of an unusual name for a white guy (and a Jew, no less).
How did I end up with a name usually reserved for civil rights memorials and streets running through the hood?
Back in early 1960’s, Jim Crow laws, mandating separate facilities for blacks and whites throughout the South, were still very much on the books and enforced. When Dallas County, Alabama blacks showed up on one of the two days per month they were allowed to apply to vote, for example, they were arrested and beaten. Of those few that managed to fill out an application, most were denied. Of 57,000 black citizens, only 130 were allowed to vote. [read the rest at Wallyhood]
