I flipped through the post cards behind the "Politics" category, hoping to find some "good" post cards, a few cards of sufficient interest to me to add to my growing collection. Aside from the fact that I can't afford anything very expensive, I don't pay much attention to the prices. It seems some post cards I find boring are worth money to dealers and the "true" collectors because of some fine detail concerning some aspect of the card that's totally irrelevant to me. Some post cards dealers sell for a quarter have great value for me and are "beautiful" to me for reasons beyond the beauty many post card collectors see in post cards of animals and flowers. I'm an I'll-know-it-when-I-see-it collector of post cards.
I wasn't long at this particular dealer's tables, flipping through the "Politics" category, when I found a post card that fascinated me. On the front was a photo that featured three men in white shirts. On the left and in the middle were two white men, seated. The third man, also seated, was Martin Luther King, Jr. Just in case one missed it, the man seated in the middle had an arrow imposed over his shirt pointing to the "black" man and labeled "King." The top of the front of this post card read, "Martin Luther King at Communist Training School."
