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MLK and Summer Farm work in Connecticut

My friend Walt is a Morehouse Man as was his father, a recently passed Black surgeon in South Georgia.  As the community remembered this prominent physician’s service in medicine and the military, many people learned that “Doc” and Dr. King worked together on farms in Connecticut during their Morehouse College years.  They enjoyed the freedom of dining and seeing movies without the Jim Crow restrictions of the South so much that many of the students were sadden when their train back to Georgia reached D.C. and they had to return to the Negro section.     

Since my father was an agriculture teacher from North Carolina A&T and Tuskegee (and a fraternity brother of Doc and Dr. King,) I heard this story many times as a child.  I spent some summers doing hard farm work in the south Georgia sun and was extreme motivated to achieve academically the next school year.  Oldheads in the fields would say, “You boys are here for pocket money and muscles; and you white boys get to work on your tans but can you image working like this for someone else for forty years.”

A little hard work during the formative years can really help with perspective today but it did other things for Dr. King back in the day.

http://www.simsburyhistory.org/mlk2.html

http://windsorcc.org/visitors/calendar/martinlutherkingce/