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This is the second part of a series. The first part is about Kiyoshi Kuromiya who was kind of incredible: born in an internment camp, looked after Martin Luther King's children (apparently?), wrote a book with Buckminster Fuller, published a gay rights magazine in 1970:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/fuck_the_draft_the_amazin...

His NYT obituary omits the poster, but adds that he was a nationally ranked Scrabble player:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/us/kiyoshi-kuromiya-57-fig...


Similar diversion: one of John Lithgow's childhood babysitters was Coretta Scott King. That shocked me.

https://reddit.com/comments/73fbct


wow didn't know that, cool.


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