Jr.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/18/2023
  

  Maine Radio Station Apologies for Distorted Edit of King Speech

  The paper had for years run an abridged version of 1963 speech to the March on Washington—which excluded King's discussions of systemic racism and race-targeted remedies for discrimination—but faced intense criticism this year from readers concerned with the politicization of history. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/4/2022
  

  The Radical MLK and a Usable Past

  by Robert Greene II

  "Above all, King’s “usable past” was part of a long tradition of Black Americans claiming a place for themselves in the larger tapestry of American history and memory."

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  4/4/2022
  

  Honoring Dr. King's Other, More Challenging Dream, 55 Years Later

  King's famous Riverside Church speech on April 4, 1967 marked the leader's decisive opposition to the war in Vietnam and reflected his moral clarity and willingness to take unpopular positions in the pursuit of justice by calling out racism, capitalism and militarism as three intertwined evils. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/9/2020
  

  After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption

  Historians of religion including Grant Wacker, Anthea Butler and John Fea comment on the significance of Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s recent public scandals and the position of Liberty University in the evangelical world. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/2020
  

  Equal Opportunity is Not Enough

  by Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor

  The myth of America as an equal opportunity society has historically allowed white Americans to hold out equality as a promise redeemable in the future but rarely available in the present.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Four Speeches by Dr. King That Can Still Guide Us Today

  by Alan Singer

  Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the war in Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, and laws that victimized working people and the poor, not just racial discrimination.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  6/12/19
  

  We need to face the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The reactions to this latest episode smack of a different kind of conspiracy, which historians should both recognize and resist: the conspiracy of silence.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

  by Barbara Ransby

  We should not become historical peeping Toms by trafficking in what amounts to rumor and innuendo.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  6/4/19
  

  How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents

  by David Greenberg

  A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  Stony the Road: From black triumph to racial hysteria to the ‘new Negro’

  by Howell Raines

  An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s  “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”

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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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• 1/20/19
  

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

  by Kyla Sommers

  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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• 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.

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• 11-30-14
  

  Did a Mediocre Letter of Recommendation for Martin Luther King, Jr. Change the Course of History?

  by Peter Eisenstadt

  "A few years ago I found some correspondence that I thought might have profoundly altered the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.  thereby redirecting the course of American and world history."

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• 7-22-14
  

  Review of "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

  by Ron Briley

  Bloom and Martin have produced a fascinating and comprehensive political history of the BPP, essentially told from the party’s perspective, which will certainly draw criticism from those contesting the violence and political legacy of the party.