In April 1968, my sons went to Memphis to help organize a struggle by the city’s sanitation workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. I wondered about M.L.’s involvement in this, whether or not he was spreading his concerns and his energies too thin. But again he was right. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] reside online and […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman. At 29, he almost died. | The Washington Post
He described the attack a decade later in his last sermon, which he delivered the night before his assassination.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ | The Atlantic
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
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The Consequences of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Canonization | The Atlantic
The civil-rights leader is now celebrated as a modern founding father, a celebration that gives those who oppose his policy agenda a claim to his legacy.
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Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed | Smithsonian Magazine
Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of the civil rights leader as he spoke out against the Vietnam War and economic disparity
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Watch the Electrifying Conclusion of Dr. King’s Final Speech | Colorlines
King celebrated the ongoing fight for social and racial equity during his famed “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech in Memphis.
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Nikki Giovanni: ‘Martin Had Faith in the People’ | The Atlantic
The day after King’s death, the writer-activist wrote a poem about what his loss meant to a movement. Fifty years later, she discusses how his model of leadership lives on.
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A Black Evangelist Who Opposed Dr. King | The New York Times
New research shows how Elder Michaux, the first minister with a weekly television show, worked with the F.B.I. to discredit the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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50 Years After His Assassination, We Are No Closer to Realizing MLK’s Most Radical Dream | New York
Whether we have made any progress toward realizing King’s more radical dream — the one he was chasing at the time of his death — is far less clear.
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The Civil Rights Pastor Who Declared ‘I Am a Man’ | The Daily Beast
James Lawson was a Civil Rights icon who saw the need for the fight to include economic inequality. He also unintentionally doomed King by inviting him to Memphis.
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