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The Civil Rights Movement’s Impact on Our Lives: Part 2

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By Democratic Socialists of America

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DSA activists remember how their lives were impacted by Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.

“You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. . . . There must be a better distribution of wealth . . .And maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speech to the SCLC staff, Frogmore, S.C., November 14, 1966

Source: The Civil Rights Movement’s Impact on Our Lives: Part 2