More than fifty years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr. remains a towering figure in the history of American civil rights. As with most influential thinkers, there is a certain amount of ambiguity in the public understanding of King and his legacy. White Americans were very skeptical of King while he was alive, but as his reputation and popularity grew, advocates of very different positions tried to claim him for their own.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed His Mind About America
Kermit Roosevelt III, Time
Mon, 01/17/2022 - 4:55am
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