Not to pick my own nits but it is nit-picker meaning
the eggs of lice. And the speech was delivered in 1963, Aug.
28th, to be precise. That period, early 60s, is the generally
accepted beginning of the organized, popular drive for civil
rights in the US. An exact beginning is probably not possible to
nail down. And I believe the caption read "during the
beginning", a vague time frame. The idea was presented fairly and
described accurately for me. Don On 8/21/10 3:05 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote: also, not to be a knit-picker, it wasn't "the beginning" by any stretch |