7th floor corridor

mother: "So who ruled after Queen Elizabeth?"

father: [history teacher] ...blah blah nonsense and descriptive words...

me: ..."so what you're trying to say is 'there is a grey in my knowledge here but im going to distract you with what i do know'...hmm i worry for your students father"
King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.” (via Rare Photos of Martin Luther King Jr. at Home)

King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”

(via Rare Photos of Martin Luther King Jr. at Home)

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