“All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life but with the product of these conditions-the Negro himself.”

1960s, The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement (1967)

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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968

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