Feeding The Call By Diana Childress Summary

In “Heeding the Call” by Diana Childress, there are many experiences from Martin Luther King Jr’s earlier life that could have affected his actions and beliefs later in his life, including: seeing that there are kind white people and it is possible for the two races to coexist. Another experience was hearing about and seeing racial discrimination. The last experience was the time he won a speech contest to represent his school on a nationwide competition, where on his way there he and his teacher were forced to stand in the aisle for the 90 mile trip. The first experience was seeing that there were kind white people and that the two races could coexist. When Martin Luther King Jr. was fifteen he went on a trip to Connecticut where he wrote in a note back home to his parents “The white people here are very nice,”. Another experience is when he joined the NAACP and served on the biracial Intercollegiate Council and discovered that “a spirit of cooperation between blacks and whites was possible even in the South”. These to experiences allowed a young Martin Luther King Jr. to see that cooperation was possible and it didn’t have to be one race over the other and that it reminded him that even though there were racists out there there were kind white

One experience was an instance where his father “refused to be humiliated by discrimination. When a shoe salesman asked them to move to the “colored” section of the store”, then Martin Luther King Jr.s father reply saying “We’ll either buy shoes sitting here or we won’t buy shoes at all”,. Another instance is when “He learned about racial discrimination at age six’ when the two sons of a white neighborhood storekeeper stopped playing with him”,. These experiences opened Martin Luther King Jr’s eyes to the discrimination and most likely encouraged him to stand up to