Two Anniversaries of Note and Substance

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1. The 57th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, given thereat.

2. The 103rd anniversary of the birth in New York City of Jacob Kurtzberg, best known today as Jack "King" Kirby, comic book artist of legend, co-creator of Captain America, and of so many more afterwards.

Both, I think, are worthy of remembrance in their own ways. Both Dr. King and Mr. Kirby were, in their respective ways, anti-fascist to their respective cores.

Comments

[thewayne]

My father-in-law, born in Scotland and you can't get much whiter than that, marched with Dr. King. I don't know if it was the Washington March, but he was on one somewhere. It is one of many things that I wish I could have spoken with him at length about.