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Sometimes the phone rings and I’ll look up and for a second I’ll wonder if it’s Bobby. Or Martin. Or Medgar. Three times, everybody who was really close to me, everybody who offered hope.

My life would be safe if I shuffled and tommed and said, ‘Yassuh, Mr. Charley, we niggers is real happy. But then I’d be dead already. I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

In Chicago, I drifted into the numbers racket. Ran some girls for a while too. But after Medgar’s death, something happened to me. I felt I had to live my life in a way he’d be proud of.

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