Cuthbert “Tuffy” Simpkins ’69
“Are you for the seemingly simple and straightforward ideas of freedom, justice and equality? The only positive response is a maximum uncompromising effort to accomplish these ideas. Don't sit back and say, ‘I have done my part.’ ” Cuthbert “Tuffy” Simpkins ’69, writing in The Amherst Student 50 years ago about the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
NOTE: In the new Amherst magazine, Simpkins reflects on Harold Wade Jr. ’68, who spoke at Johnson Chapel about King on April 5, 1968.