As King put it in the 1967 interview, passage of those acts came at “bargained rates.”He explained: “It didn’t cost the nation anything. In fact, it helped the economic side of the nation to integrate lunch counters and public accommodations. It didn’t cost the nation anything to get the right to vote established. King said in his Stanford speech:“In 1863 the Negro was freed from the bondage of physical slavery. But at the same time, the nation refused to give him land to make that freedom meaningful.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2020 01:30 UTC