… is very long, lndeed. “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National Cathedral, March 31, 1968. The blurry byline on the copy of “A Singing Heard in Selma’s Mud” …

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My 35-year-old father, Bob Robertson, struts for some of the San Francisco Chronicle gang in 1963 after walking 50 miles around the city in 20 hours, taking up President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to the Marine Corps for one of the paper’s gag stories. He did it fueled by martinis and oranges, so the tale …

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