Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters.”Ī half-dozen years earlier, she had begun having delusions about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which she believed was a Communist front. King went on: “And I want to say tonight - I want to say tonight that I, too, am happy that I didn’t sneeze. And I’m simply writing you to say that I’m so happy that you didn’t sneeze.” And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I’m a white girl. “I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School. Of all the letters of consolation that poured in to the hospital, he continued, there was one that “I will never forget.” “And once that’s punctured, you’re drowned in your own blood - that’s the end of you.”
“The X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery,” Dr.
Curry and did not want charges pressed, memorialized the attack in “ I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” That speech, delivered in Memphis on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, endures as one of his most famous. King, who said afterward that he bore no animus toward Ms. If he had so much as sneezed, his doctors later told him, he would not have survived.ĭr. Curry’s blade, a seven-inch ivory-handled steel letter opener, which had lodged near his heart. King his life, requiring hours of delicate surgery to remove Ms. King, then a 29-year-old Alabama preacher who had assumed the national stage amid the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56. Questions persisted about what could have moved her to attack Dr. Curry herself was black, the daughter of sharecroppers from the rural South. What surprised many observers at the time of the crime was that Ms. Her death, confirmed by the office of the chief medical examiner of New York City, was first reported by The Smoking Gun, the investigative website. Curry died in a nursing home, the last stop in the series of institutions that had been her home for more than half a century. at a Harlem book signing - an episode that a decade later would become a rhetorical touchstone in the last oration of his life - died on March 7 in Queens. Izola Ware Curry, the mentally ill woman who in 1958 stabbed the Rev.
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