Martin Luther King

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• SOURCE: The Tennessean
  4/26/19
  

  MLK's prescription for healing hate was embracing 'agape'

  by Eli Merritt

  King spoke about the Greek concept of agape, or brotherly love and compassion, a social concept he defined as “understanding, creative, redemptive good will for all men.”

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• 3/24/19
  

  Vernon Johns: An Often Forgotten Controversial Civil Rights Activist

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Johns was a critical figure in the push for racial equality, chiefly because he was not merely a pusher, but also a shover.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/25/19
  

  Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights

  by Taylor McNeilly

  Walker was hailed as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  1/23/19
  

  Historians on The Political Misuses of King's Legacy

  Year after year, notable figures and institutions attempt to recast Martin Luther King Jr. as champion of causes that don't align with his legacy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/19
  

  On MLK Day, descendants of Lee, Stonewall Jackson urge Va. to halt Confederate tributes

  Descendants of two Confederate generals appeared in the Virginia Senate on Monday to show their support for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who days earlier sat out a Republican senator’s ode to Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  1/21/19
  

  Julian Zelizer blasts Pence for comparing Donald Trump to MLK

  Zelizer said the Trump administration is "antithetical to absolutely everthing" King fought for. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  1/21/19
  

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remembering the women civil rights leaders left out of spotlight

  “Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/20/19
  

  Pence's shocking use of Martin Luther King's words

  by Julian Zelizer

  As we've seen, nothing about this administration resembles King's ideals.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/21/19
  

  Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

  by Justin Rose

  How the nation chooses to define greatness will have grave implications. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/19
  

  Robert J. Brown Worked With Both MLK and Nixon. Here’s What He Says Went on Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

  The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/15/19
  

  The story of how Michael King Jr. became Martin Luther King Jr.

  A look at the civil rights leader’s childhood name change

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• 1/20/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: Remember Dr. King's Nightmare This MLK Day

  by HNN Staff

  How historians can be inspired by remembering the radical and realist Dr. King.

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• 1/20/19
  

  Dr. King's Legacy and Nuclear Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Few people know Dr. King was also an activist for nuclear disarmament and urged peace during the Cold War nuclear arms race. 

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• 1/17/19
  

  Martin Luther King Day: What Historians Are Saying

  What historians are saying about Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Twitter, and other related news.

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• 2-28-16
  

  This is What Is Still Holding Us Back from the Creation of a Fair Society

  by Jeff Roquen

  It’s the plain old, ugly racist belief in the superiority of whites over blacks.

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• SOURCE: KFOR
  1-18-16
  

  Documentary: When Oklahoma children changed civil rights history

  It was August 19, 1958 when a group of children in Oklahoma City walked into Katz Drugstore, sat down at the lunch counter and asked for service.

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• SOURCE: Rasmussen Reports
  1-18-16
  

  Most Say MLK’s Dream Still Unfulfilled

  Views of Martin Luther King Jr. Day haven’t changed, but even after seven years of having the first black president in office, Americans are more dubious than ever that King’s dream of equal opportunity has been achieved. Blacks are the most skeptical.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-21-15
  

  A Plan to Honor Martin Luther King at a Southern Civil War Symbol

  A proposal that would put a bell atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, where a carving of Confederate heroes dominates, has drawn opposition from whites and blacks.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  8-12-15
  

  Recording of MLK's 1st 'I Have a Dream' speech discovered

  Before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  6-2-15
  

  David Oyelowo Says Steven Spielberg Wants Him to Reprise Martin Luther King Jr. Role in Upcoming Biopic

  After starring as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed movie Selma, David Oyelowo revealed in a recent interview that Steven Spielberg is trying to get him to reprise his role as the civil rights leader.