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1.18.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioied Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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  Radio Eye is a reading service intended for people who
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  are blind or of other disabilities that make it difficult
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  to read printed material. Today we will be continuing the
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  book Memphis Martin and the Mountaintop the Sanitation Strike of
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  nineteen sixty eight. Her book was published by Calkin's Creek,
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  an imprint of Highlights, and it has a copyright year
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  of twenty eighteen. The author of our story is Alice
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  Faye Duncan.
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  Speaker 2: Silver Rights.
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  Speaker 1: I did not plainly comprehend the trouble I saw in
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  nineteen sixty eight. Wisden came slowly over the mountain years.
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  But when I look back now, I understand the Memphis
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  struggle was an economic fight. Better wages and pay were
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  a matter.
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  Speaker 2: Of silver rights.
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  Speaker 1: Poverty was a silver war. My daddy and his friends
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  were the working poor. The men sought better wages to
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  feed their families and buy decent homes, not run down
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  shanties like our rented house. As public servants, sanitation workers
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  deserved better pay to educate their children and give them
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  a future bright with hope. This was the message Doctor
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  King preached when he arrived in Memphis on March eighteenth.
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  He said, all labor has dignity. Doctor King's voice was
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  loud and stirring. I listened with my parents from a
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  crowded church pew as the famous leader drafted a plan
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  to march in Memphis with the striking men. Doctor King
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  set a date for March twenty second. Daddy leaned toward
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  Mama's ear. He said, we need everybody to march that day.
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  Mama did not waver. She assured Daddy, I'll take off work.
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  You can count on me. Then Mama pad in my
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  hand and said we will take Lorraine. She can march
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  with us omen yellow daffodils sixteen inches under snow. King
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  canceled his march phil Street. I followed Doctor King during
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  the nightly news on our black and white TV. As
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  president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  he cared deeply for America's working port. Doctor King set
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  out to abolish poverty the very same way he had
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  raised his voice to abolish racial segregation. He wanted to
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  strengthen labor laws for all Americans, and to make his
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  dream come true, he planned a massive march in Washington, DC.
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  In the spring of nineteen sixty eight, Doctor King named
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  his new crusade the Poor People's Campaign. As he traveled
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  the nation to promote his plans, Doctor King drew national
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  attention to the Memphis strike. He called it a small
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  com inflict that presented a big American problem. From coast
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  to coast, and especially in the South, public servants and
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  unskilled laborers like my parents were often underpaid and reduced
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  to poverty. When the strange snow cleared, Doctor King rescheduled
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  his Memphis protests for March twenty eighth. Mama kept me
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  home from school so I could march.
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  Speaker 2: That day.
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  Speaker 1: We stood together with other mothers and children at the
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  back of the protest line, away from the possible danger.
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  My daddy stood tall at the front of the line
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  with striking workers and clergy. Like Reverend Lawson and Doctor King.
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  Daddy and his friends also carried picket signs bearing four words,
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  I am a man with or without a pay increase.
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  They demanded Mayor Loviib's respect. Six thousand people blacks, whites,
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  men and women, and children gathered in downtown Memphis. Police
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  stood guard with tear gas, clubs and guns. Fifteen minutes
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  into the march, there was a sound of breaking glass.
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  Lures threw bricks and sticks up and down Bill Street.
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  They shattered storefront windows as strikers and strike supporters scattered
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  their way to safety. Police sprayed tear gas and beats
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  guilty people. They beat annison people too. Bloods flattered everywhere.
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  It was difficult to see, and I was separated from
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  my mama. I yelled, Mama, where are you. Daddy found
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  me on the curb. He scooped me up and we
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  ran to a nearby church. Mama lost her hat and gloves,
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  but she managed to reach us safely. Was never proven,
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  but rumors said militant teenagers started the Bill Street riot.
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  As for the Memphis Morning Paper, it called doctor Keena
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  coward because he ran from the violence and was carted
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  away safely in a stranger's passing car. The news reports
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  stirred my father. He raised his fists and fume. Doctor
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  Keene is a bona fide man. Mama rubbed her feet
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  in sight. Sometimes bad people mess things up for the
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  good people doing good trucks and tanks. Mayor Loeb issued
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  a state of emergency in response to the Bill Street riot.
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  He imposed a seven pm curfew and called for four
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  thousand National Guard soldiers to patrol the Memphis streets and
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  military trucks and tanks. The presence of soldiers restored the peace,
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  but on the following day the strike seemed to have
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  no end. Mayor Loeb held firmly to his anti union position,
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  and workers continued to march. The sight of loaded guns
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  did not send them back to work. From my bedroom window,
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  I saw soldiers and big green tanks creep slowly up
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  the street. I waved to my friend Jan who sat
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  in her window too. Nobody played outside that day. Fear
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  locked us in our houses. Dreamers don't quit when challenges arise.
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  Dreamers keep on climbing. My daddy was a dreamer. Doctor
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  King was a dreamer too. When the Memphis march turned
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  into a riot, the disappointed leader left the city, but
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  he promised to return. He promised to lead a peaceful
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  march in support of the striking workers. And as doctor
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  Keene made new plans to protest, death threats rattling his ears.
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  Somebody wanted to kill his dream of economic freedom for
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  the working poor. Threats did not stop his mountain climb.
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  On April third, nineteen sixty eight, Doctor King kissed his
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  wife and children. He left his Atlanta home and boarded
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  a flight to Memphis. I was there on that stormy night.
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  Doctor King returned. Clouds blotted out stars in the Memphis sky.
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  Speaker 2: When whipped through the bending trees.
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  Speaker 1: My daddy beamed with hope when he told Mama, doctor
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  King is going to preach night at Mason Temple Church
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  and Daddy's Blue July. We sputtered through pounding rain. We
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  chugged through bursts of lighting and the shrill of tornado sirens.
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  When we entered the church, apprecier named Abernathy stood at
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  the microphone. Ralph Abernathy was doctor King's best friend. On
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  that stormy night, he delivered terrible news. Doctor King was
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  sick and resting in a motel room. Rain soaked faces grumbled.
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  My daddy did not drive through sheets of rain for
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  Ralph Abernathy. He came to hear Doctor King as the
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  crowd listened to speeches about the strike. I slept in
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  Mama's arms. Kaboom, A voice like the evening thunder shook
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  me from my sleep. It was Doctor King, Like Moses
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  on the mountain, he charged men, women, and children to
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  make the world a promised land flowing with freedom and justice.
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  Like a man preaching his own funeral, Doctor King used
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  vivid words to paint the story of his life. He
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  described his chain challenges and triumphs during the Civil rights movement,
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  and in the face of death threats, Doctor King spoke boldly.
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  He encouraged Memphis strikers and strike supporters to march, boycott,
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  and raise their voices for workers' rights until victory was one.
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  His voice boomed, I may not get there with you,
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  but I want you to know tonight that we as
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  a people will get to the promised land. The crowd
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  rose up with a defending, deafening shout. My daddy yelled, Amen,
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  my mama yelled, praised the Lord, and an old man hollered,
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  we can't stop now. Dreamers never quit. Lorraine. My name
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  is Lorraine. Like the Memphis Motel, many years have passed,
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  but the building still stands. The Lorraine Motel is a
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  storied shrine. Doctor King shared his last neil and rested
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  there on April fourth, nineteen sixty eight. The leader spent
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  his last hour on the second floor in room three
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  hundred and six, where he talked with Ralph Abernathy and
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  Samuel Kyles. They joked and laughed the way good friends do,
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  and they spoke of plans for an evening rally with
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  the striking workers. The laughter did not last for long.
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  Evil showed its ugly head as James Earl Ray hunkered
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  down in the open window of a boarding house per
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  seventy yards from the Rain Motel. The escaped conflict convict
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  pointed his wife at the room three six and waited.
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  He saw his target. At one minute past six, Doctor
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  King stepped on the balcony, where he greeted friends in
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  the parking lot. Ray fired his gun and a bullet
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  pierced the dreamer's neck. News of doctor King's assassination spread
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  quickly in Washington, DC, Chicago, and Baltimore. Young people expressed
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  their grief with looting and raging fires. Mayor Henry Loebb
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  called for the return of the National Guard. There was
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  not much looting in Memphis, but a fire burned in me.
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  As I stretched across my bed and listened to radio
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  station WDA. Between finger snapping hits by Wretha Franklin and
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  James Brown, the black disc jockey cried for the loss
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  of doctor King. I cried too when Doctor King was shot.
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  I also wrote a poem in my school notebook, writing
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  starveding better than breaking glass, and Mama posted my poem
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  on the crumbling wall of our rented house. The King
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  is Dead by Lorraine Jackson. Not long ago there lived
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  a king. He did not sleep in a castle, He
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  did not wear a crown. He did not rule a
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  royal court or ride in chariots. The King marched in
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  the streets. He lived to help the poor. He lived
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  for peace and love. Hate killed the King. The King
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  is dead. What will the people do? Black widow Coretta
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  Scott King flew to Memphis committed to a plan. Doctor
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  King had pledged to support the sanitation strike with a
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  non violent march. Despite her broken heart, Missus King and
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  members of SCLC helped to keep her husband's pledge.
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  Speaker 2: On April eighth, nineteen sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: The memorial march served as a tribute to honor doctor
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  King's life. It also reminded the mayor that workers would
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  strike and continue their upper climb until justice was received.
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  In a wave of forty thousand people, I marched that
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  day between my mama and my daddy. Those who marched
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  with us were ministers, labor leaders, political figures, entertainers, and
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  everyday people from Memphis and around the nation. Nobody spoke
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  a word. We raised our protest science, Honor King in racism,
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  Union justice Now Missus King marched from Memphis behind a
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  veil of mourning. She buried her love in Georgia, victory
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  on a blue note. The Memphis sanitation strike ended on
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  April sixth, nineteen sixty eight. Mayor Loeb never bargained with
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  the workers. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent James Reynolds, a
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  top US labor official, to negotiate a settlement. Reynolds broker
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  an agreement between the sanitation workers and the Memphis City Council.
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  In the final deal, the city of Memphis recognized the
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  workers labor union. The men received a pay increase of
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  fifteen cents an hour, and they were promised job promotions
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  based on merit, not race. I remember that glad day
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  the stinking strike came to an end. It was the
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  Tuesday after Easter. Daddy marched protutling into the house and
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  smiled at Mama and me. He picked me up, kissed
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  my face, and cried in Mama's neck. Mama squeezed as
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  tightly as tears filled her eyes.
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  Speaker 2: So much was one? How much was lost?
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  Speaker 1: Freedom is never free? Mountaintop dream big, walk, talk, be strong,
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  march on, don't quit, never stop. Climb up the mountaintop.
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  Our next stories are about famous like Americans, and the
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  first book is called Hank Aaron Home Run Hammer. It's
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  published by Learner Publications and has a copyright year of
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  twenty twenty two and the author's percy leads beyond Babe.
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  On April eighth, nineteen seventy four, one of baseball's greatest
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  records was about to fall as the Atlanta Braves faced
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  the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hank Aaron, Atlanta's star outfielder, needed
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  one home run to pass Babe Bruce's career record of
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  seven hundred and fourteen. The fifty three thousand, seven hundred
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  and seventy five fans at Georgia's Atlanta Stadium buzzed with excitement.
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  Fox at a Glance date of birth February fifth, nineteen
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  thirty four, positions, right field and first base leagues, Negro
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  Leagues and Major League Baseball professional highlights broke Babe Ruth's
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  career home run record had seven hundred and fifty five
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  career home runs. Elected to the National Baseball Hall of
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  Fame in nineteen eighty two.
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  Speaker 2: Personal highlights.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up in Mobile, Alabama, played fast pitched softball in
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  high school. Nickname Hammering Hank. Hammering Hank came to the
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  bat in the fourth inning. The waist high pitch was
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  just what he wanted to see. Aaron slugged the ball
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  towards deep left center field. It soared over the fence
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  and bounced into the Atlanta Bullpien. Aaron had just become
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  baseball's new home run king. He had done what once
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  seemed impossible. He hit seven hundred and fifteen home runs.
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  The crowd erupted in loud cheers. After he rounded the basis.
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  His parents hugged him. Aaron inflected on his achievement. At
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  that moment, I knew what the past twenty five years
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  of my life that had all been about, he said,
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  I had done something that nobody else in the world
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  had ever done. Every home run he hit right after
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  this point would set a new record, one.
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  Speaker 2: That belonged to him. Dreaming Big. Aaron Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron was born on February fifth, nineteen thirty four in Mobile, Alabama.
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  He was the third child of Herbert and Estella Aaron.
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  Hank found time to play baseball whenever he could. Hank's
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  high school, Central High, didn't have a baseball team. At
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  the time, Alabama schools were segregated, only schools for white
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  students and baseball teams. Hank dreamed of playing in the
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  Major League base but his father told him that black
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  people weren't allowed to play in the league. African Americans
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  and other people of color who wanted to play pro
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  baseball had to join the Negro leagues. Then, in nineteen
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  forty seven, Jackie Robinson broke the Major League color barrier.
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  He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African
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  American Major leaguer. Hank played on Central High's fast pitch
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  softball team. He played several positions, including catcher and pitcher,
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  and he hit a good number of home runs. Hank's
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  baseball talent was obvious, but he also played football. His
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  mother was upset when he quit football in high school
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  to focus on baseball. She hoped Hank could earn a
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  college scholarship as a football player. In nineteen fifty two,
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  eighteen year old Aaron left high school, he joined the
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  Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues. The young shortstop batted
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  zero point four hundred and helped the Clowns win game
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  after game. Major League Baseball team sent scouts to watch
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  Aaron play. Suddenly, several teams were interested in Aeron. A
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  bidding war broke out between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
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  Boston Braves. The New York Giants wanted him to Aaron
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  decided to go with the Braves. They offered him three
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  hundred and fifty a months, one hundred more than the
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  Giants did. But Aaron went and't play in the major
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  leagues right away. He'd have to prove himself in other
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  leagues first. In nineteen fifty three, Aaron joined the Puerto
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  Rican League. After seeing a strong throwing arm, Aaron's new
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  coaches moved him to the outfield. He finished the season
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  third in the league in batting average and tied for
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  first in home runs. He even won the most Valuable
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  Player award in the league All Star Game. Aaron was
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  ready for the major leagues, making his mark. In the
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  spring of nineteen fifty four, Aaron joined the Braves major
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  League team the team had moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin the
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  year before. On April twenty third, he selegt his first
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  major league home run. By the end of the season,
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  he had hit twelve more. Once I got comfortable, I
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  found that playing in the big leagues wasn't nearly as
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  hard as getting there, Aaron said in nineteen fifty five,
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  Aaron made the game look easy. A hot first half
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  of the season earned him his first trip to the
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  Major League All Star Game. By season in he batted
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  point three one four hit twenty seven homers and one
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  hundred six rbs, and was named the teams MVP Most
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  Valuable Player. Aeron kept getting better. On September twenty fourth,
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  nineteen fifty seven, he banged out his forty fourth home
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  run of the season. The blast secured his first National
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  League Home run title. He also led the league with
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  one hundred thirty two RBIs. The Braves won the NL
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  title and face the New York Yankees in the World Series.
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  The Yankees were the clear favorites. They had already won
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  seventeen World Championships. The Braves, back when they were still
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  in Boston, had won just one, But Aaron and his
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  crew refused to back down for New York Superstars. New
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  York won the first game three to one. Aaron energized
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  his team in Game two by hitting a triple. The
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  Braves won four to two, but back in Milwaukee for
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  Game three, despite a homer by Aaron, the Braves fell apart.
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  They lost twelve to three. In Game four, Aaron smike
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  the three run homer in the bottom of the fourth inning,
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  when the Braves leading four to one. At the end
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  of the eighth, a win seemed certain, but with two
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  runners at base, Elston Howard, the first African American Yankees player,
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  smikeed a home run and tied the game. The Braves
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  finally won seven to five in the tenth inning. After that,
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  we felt like we couldn't be beaten, said Aaron. The
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  Braves took games five one in zero. In Game six,
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  Aaron hit his third World Series home run, but New
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  York won three to two. Game seven was all about
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  the Braves. Milwaukee won five to zero. Aaron and the
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  Braves were officially the best in baseball Mister three thousand.
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  In nineteen fifty eight, Aaron and the Braves were eager
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  for another trip to the World Series. Milwaukee became the
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  National League's champions for the second year in a row.
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  Aaron finished with a point three to two six average,
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  thirty home runs, and ninety five RBIs. In the World Series,
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  the Braves met up with the Yankees for the second
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  straight year. Milwaukee won three of the first four games,
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  but the Yankees came back to win the final three games.
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  The early nineteen sixties were tough for the Braves. In
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  nineteen sixty four, rumors spread that the team would move
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  to Atlanta, Georgia. Although Aaron had a point three two
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  eight average and a twenty four home run, the Braves
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  were in a major slump. They finished in fifth place.
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  On September twentieth, nineteen sixty five, Aaron hit his three
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  hundred and ninety eighth career homer, the last ever hit
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  by Milwaukee Braves player in Milwaukee. The team moved to
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  Atlanta after the season. During the Braves' first home game
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  in Atlanta on April twelfth, nineteen sixty six, Aaron didn't
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  hit a home run but the seas, but by the
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  season's end, he was the National League's top home run
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  hitter forty four for the third time in his career.
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  He also won his fourth RBI Crown one hundred and
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  twenty seven. Aaron just kept hitting. July nineteen sixty nine,
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  he rocketed his five hundred and thirty seventh home run,
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  putting him third on the all time home run list.
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  On May seventeenth, nineteen seventy, he made his three thousandth
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  career hit. The three thousand hit Club had only eight
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  other members at the time. Aaron was the first African
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  player to join it. On April twenty seventh, nineteen seventy one,
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  Aaron hit his six hundredth homer. He ended the season
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  with forty seven blasts, his highest total ever. During the
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  nineteen seventy two season, Aaron's batting average was down, but
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  he kept hitting long home runs. On June tenth, he
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  hit his six hundred and forty ninth homer, moving his
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  past Willie Mays into second place on the all time list.
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  Aaron was in position to break Ruth's records home run king.
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  After the nineteen seventy two season, Aaron hosted a bowling
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  tournament to raise money for sickle silinimia research. Silckle celinemia
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  is a disease that mostly affects people of African scent.
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  Aaron pulled together an all star guest list of sports superstars.
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  It made me pray to think that I could attract
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  all those great people and made me feel good to
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  see them giving up their time for a worthy cause,
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  Aaron said. Going into nineteen seventy three season, Aaron was
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  only forty one homers away from reaching Babe Ruth's record.
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  Aaron's seven hundredth homer came in a game on July
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  twenty first. With all the excitement, he was constantly surrounded
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  by the media. He received letters from supporters as well
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  as hate mail from people who didn't want him to
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  break Ruth's record. In nineteen seventy three, Aaron received nine
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  hundred and thirty thousand letters, more than any other US citizen.
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  On September twenty ninth, the next to last day of
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  the season, he increased his home run total to seven
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  hundred and thirteen. On April fourth, nineteen seventy four, forty
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  year old Aaron arrived at CINCINNTI eighties river Front Stadium
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  to face the Reds. In the first inning, he waked
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  a homer into the left center field seats.
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  Speaker 2: He had done it. He had tied Babe Ruth's record.
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  Speaker 1: Hank ran around the bases with tears in his eyes.
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  Speaker 2: On April eighth, bike on his home turf, Aaron was ready.
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  Speaker 1: It was the season open to Ortlanta, and fans filled
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  the seats to see Aaron break Ruth's record. During the
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  fourth inning, his seven hundred and fifteenth home run sailed
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  into baseball history. Aaron was the new home run king.
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  More than thirty five million TV viewers and radio listeners
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  had experienced the moment. Aarin's achievement may news around the world.
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  Aaron spent the final two seasons of his career with
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  the Milwaukee Brewers. On October third, nineteen seventy six, he
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  played in the final major league game. He ended his
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  career with seven hundred and fifty five home runs. On
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  August first, nineteen eighty two, Aaron joined the Baseball Hall
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  of Fame. He died in January tw Eric will always
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  be linked to the sports he loves. It's the means
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  I have to make a little difference in the world,
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  he said. This is all that we have time for today,
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  So we will conclude our Children's Story Hour. Please join
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  us next time as we will read more stories, fables
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  and fairy tales. Thank you for listening and please stay
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