MLK's driver remembers 'chasing the dream'
When people think of the 1960s civil rights movement, they think of the leaders and lieutenants ... Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams.
They and many more are remembered for challenging segregation, organizing voter registration drives, pushing for equal pay, fighting for union rights, speaking in church and at rallies.
But there were many unsung foot soldiers in the movement -- witnesses to American history.
One was Tom Houck, now 60 years old.
Back then, he says, he was a "long-haired, bearded, hippie-looking dude" from Massachusetts. And he was proud to be Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal driver and assistant. "I was a young white boy finding his own dream through Dr. King."
Today, Houck is condensing his memories of those dramatic times into a memoir, which he plans to call "Driving Dr. King: Chasing the Dream."
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They and many more are remembered for challenging segregation, organizing voter registration drives, pushing for equal pay, fighting for union rights, speaking in church and at rallies.
But there were many unsung foot soldiers in the movement -- witnesses to American history.
One was Tom Houck, now 60 years old.
Back then, he says, he was a "long-haired, bearded, hippie-looking dude" from Massachusetts. And he was proud to be Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal driver and assistant. "I was a young white boy finding his own dream through Dr. King."
Today, Houck is condensing his memories of those dramatic times into a memoir, which he plans to call "Driving Dr. King: Chasing the Dream."