The third Monday of January each year is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.(사진) Day, this year 2024, Martin Luther King Jr.
The day is January 15th. He was born on January 15, 1929, and was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.

He wanted to advance rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
His famous words "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." It is a federal holiday in the U.S.A. 

Last night when I turned on my favorite TV. channel, TCM, and the movie called "Mississippi B urning”(1988) is playing.
Set in 1964 when three civil rights activists were murdered in a small town by the Ku Klux Klan.
Even though two of them were white and one of them was black.
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the '60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white.
Even though I am not a black person, I felt so much pain as a human being that very hard to watch the movie.

I more thought about the book "Beloved" by Toni Morrison who was a black woman writer, who said the reason why she only wrote about black people is that is the only known subject and only her main concern.

The main character "Sethe" kills her newborn baby so as not to make her another slave like her. And even did not give a name, so her baby's graveyard tombstone only marked "Beloved".
The ghost of her dead baby, Beloved follows her mother, Sethe, to try to avenge her death. She causes Sethe to remember more and more of her painful past. Yet, Sethe maintains that her killing her child was an act of love.
After a few of the women break into song in a kind of exorcism, that makes Beloved disappear.
After Beloved's departure, Seth's household seems to become normal.

All those incidents and stories represent the '60s dark black American people's history. 
However, if still existed?

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