Why We Can't Wait

In the introduction of Why We Can't Wait, MLK mentions that he sees a young Negro boy. Describe the setting that MLK describes for this boy.

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The young Negro boy is sitting on a stoop in front of an apartment building in Harlem. The place stinks of garbage, and drunks, jobless, and junkies are figures in his everyday world. The boy's father is jobless, and his mother works for a family in Long Island.