EDITOR’S NOTE: The following remarks were delivered before the Urban League on Friday, July 25.I would like to thank the Urban League, and specifically Marc Morial and Donna Jones Baker, for your hospitality and warm reception.All Clyde Kennard wanted was an education, but being black in Mississippi in the 1950s, nothing came easy. Instead of getting into college, Clyde got into trouble. Clyde was released from prison a few months after I was born. He was imprisoned for the crime of wanting an education.The first time he tried to enroll at Mississippi Southern, the police planted liquor on him, jailed
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