'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Ken Zacher was a white 31-year-old high school basketball coach from an almost all-white town in rural Oklahoma, and there he stood on a stage before thousands at the 1972 national NAACP convention in Detroit.
Moore insisted that most of the Zacher opponents from the white community were not racists: "They also recognize that many kinds of discrimination do exist and that it will not end because someone demands authority or defends a principle," he wrote, "but it must be overcome through education, understanding, compromise and compassion ... for both the black and white races."
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