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17 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 433 (1983-1984)
A Holiday for Dr. King: The Significance of Symbols in the Black Freedom Stuggle

handle is hein.journals/davlr17 and id is 443 raw text is: ADDRESS A Holiday for Dr. King: The Significance of Symbols in the Black Freedom Struggle Derrick Bell, Jr. * I was in New York City a few weeks ago and hailed a taxi for the long ride to the airport. Settling down in the back seat, I glanced at the driver's name tag and said, I can't believe it. Can't believe what, brother, the driver responded, turning slightly to face me. He -was dark, wiry thin, with plenty of self-confidence, or so I gathered from his driving, which caused me to hope his skill and my insurance coverage were in keeping with the car's speed. I can't believe your name is Jesse B. Semple. You may not believe it, the driver said, without slowing his speed up West End Avenue, but that's been my name all my life, and I'm not about to change it. You know, I said, ignoring his belligerent response, that's a pretty famous name. Langston Hughes regaled millions of black people over many years with his short essays about conversations with a street- wise Harlem black named Jesse B. Simple. Hughes always called him 'Simple.' I think he published five or six books filled with those Simple *Dean and Professor of Law, University of Oregon. A.B. 1952, Duquesne Univer- sity; LL.B. 1957, Pittsburgh University. Staff Attorney, United States Department of Justice, 1957-59; Executive Secretary, Pittsburgh NAACP, 1959; First Assistant Coun- sel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1960-66; Deputy Director, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education & Welfare, 1966-68; Executive Director, Western Center on Law & Poverty, 1968-69. This address was first presented as a speech at the Fourth Annual Martin Luther King Day, University of California, Davis, School of Law, Jan. 15, 1984.

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