Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

• The ‘Colored Only’ Fountain

  In 1969, passing through Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, I drank from a fountain marked “Colored Only”—and waited to see what would happen.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 11, 2026

  Autobio

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