"You'll never know how easy you and Jackie and [Larry] Doby and Campy [Roy Campanella] made it for me to do my job by what you did on the baseball field," Martin Luther King, Jr. said to baseball superstar Don Newcombe a few weeks before King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Newcombe was humbled. "Imagine, here is Martin getting beaten with billy clubs, bitten by dogs and thrown in jail, and he says we made his job easier."
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 251
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