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As Jon Sanders wrote about Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, the pursuit of freedom these four young men undertook 50 years ago is no less radical today, but for very different reasons.

Interesting, too, that the N&R includes in today’s commemorative edition the Langston Hughes poem ‘Freedom’s Plow, which says ‘No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.’ That’s why the phone lines in D.C. are jammed.