En Route to Victory

Jim Peck is one of those remarkable men who make us all feel a little more human and dignified. Like his colleagues in CORE, he didn’t need the bona fides of 53 stitches in his head, earned on a Freedom Ride through Birmingham, Alabama, to establish his right to be heard on the struggle for human rights. He took the beatings and stitches along the road to freedom. If we’ve made progress along that road, and we have indeed, it’s precisely because of men like Jim Peck and such...