The Ripple Effects of Ministry

to as "boy," or stalking out of a store with his son when being told by a shoe clerk that
they would have to "move to the rear" of the store to be served.
When King was a child, he befriended a white boy whose father owned a business near
his family's home. When the boys were six, they started school: King had to attend a
school for African Americans, and the other boy went to one for whites (public schools
were among the facilities segregated by state law). King lost his friend because the
child's father no longer wanted the boys to play together.
King suffered from depression through much of his life. In his adolescent years, he
initially felt resentment against whites due to the "racial humiliation" that he, his family,
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