Martin Luther King Jr.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/20
  

  Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  The civil-rights leader’s personal political party affiliation remains a mystery.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/20/20
  

  ‘To India I come as a pilgrim’: Martin Luther King Jr.’s remarkable trip to honor his hero

  by Gillian Brockell

  King first learned about Gandhi as a seminary student in 1949, just a year after Gandhi had been assassinated. He soon wrote about Gandhi in his schoolwork as a person who “greatly reveal[s] the working of the Spirit of God.”

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• 10/27/19
  

  “The Uplift of All” Through Nonviolent Direct Action

  by Michael Honey

  Nonviolence struggle links you backward and forward to generations of people who have changed the world and provides a personal link to others that can sustain a life of activism.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/27/19
  

  Listen to the Stories of Alabama’s Civil Rights Sites

  A new interactive project seeks to preserve oral testimonies connected to 20 historic locations.

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• SOURCE: Intelligencer
  6/30/2019
  

  Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Rights Icon

  Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  6/7/19
  

  Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task

  by David Garrow

  David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/30/19
  

  What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?

  by Rod Radosh

  Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/19
  

  A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible

  by Donna Murch

  A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/3/2019
  

  About the FBI’s Spying

  by William McGurn

  What’s the difference between surveillance of Carter Page and Martin Luther King?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  David Garrow's Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor.

  David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.

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• 6/4/19
  

  How Should Historians Respond to David Garrow's Article on Martin Luther King, Jr.?

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  How can and should historians address the history of gender and sexuality when it intersects with the histories of the civil rights movement, gender, American religion, and the development of the surveillance state?

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  5/31/19
  

  Biographer Garrow pens explosive report on Martin Luther King Jr.

  The FBI allegations chronicled by Garrow could trigger a new examination of the civil rights hero’s personal life.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/30/19
  

  J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified

  by Trevor Griffey

  An article just published by the U.K.-based Standpoint Magazine alleges that civil rights icon Martin Luther King witnessed and even celebrated a woman’s rape.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/30/19
  

  ‘Irresponsible’: Historians attack David Garrow’s MLK allegations

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer says he doesn’t believe his reputation will suffer.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: Townhall
  7-30-14
  

  History Professor: Convicted Cop Killer Mumia Should Be Celebrated Like Martin Luther King Jr. in Schools

  "Essentially by the end of his life, Martin Luther King like Mumia Abu Jamal, was a radical."

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-25-13
  

  Dana Milbank: Roberts’s Cynical Treatment of MLK in Voting Ruling

  Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post.The Roberts court chose a most cynical way to celebrate this summer’s 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s penultimate day in session before the Aug. 28 semi-centenary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the court’s conservative majority announced a 5 to 4 ruling that guts one of King’s greatest triumphs, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (The Roberts court weakened another of King’s triumphs, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a pair of 5-to-4 rulings on Monday.)