Martin luther king jr quotes on leadership

As historic events slip over the horizon, household names fade into a query: “Wasn’t he the guy who, uh, did … What was it again?”

Al Raby was the guy who brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Chicago.

Sixty-five years ago, he went to the Atlanta headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Jesse Jackson later recalled that several cities were then asking for King’s help.

But Raby got it by telling King the Chicago activists’ predicament, just like it was. A campaign against the city’s segregated schools was sputtering. Protests were drawing “Nine people and a dog,” Raby told King.

Thus it was that King and Raby stood behind a microphone for a news conference at O’Hare International Airport on July 23, 1965.

“I don’t know the problems of Chicago personally,” King said, “but I am here to do a job for the community and to see the people.”

King had won a Nobel Peace Pri