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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/martin-luther-kings-radical-legacy-poor-peoples-campaign-black-lives-matter-socialist/ by Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou 15/1/17 DISSENT]
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/martin-luther-kings-radical-legacy-poor-peoples-campaign-black-lives-matter-socialist/ by Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou 15/1/17 DISSENT]
  “The only thing I ask is that they not take the freeways. Dr. King would never take a freeway.” So said Kasim Reed, the liberal African American mayor of Atlanta, in response to Black Lives Matter protests in King’s birth city last summer. Noted conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly has likewise postulated with great confidence that “Dr. King would not participate in a Black Lives Matter protest.” Reed and O’Reilly were quickly lambasted for their lack of historical accuracy: Martin Luther King, Jr., of course, led the iconic 1965 march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and countless other acts of disruptive civil disobedience. But their sentiment reveals our popular misunderstanding of the life and legacy of America’s favorite civil rights leader.
  “The only thing I ask is that they not take the freeways. Dr. King would never take a freeway.” So said Kasim Reed, the liberal African American mayor of Atlanta, in response to Black Lives Matter protests in King’s birth city last summer. Noted conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly has likewise postulated with great confidence that “Dr. King would not participate in a Black Lives Matter protest.” Reed and O’Reilly were quickly lambasted for their lack of historical accuracy: Martin Luther King, Jr., of course, led the iconic 1965 march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and countless other acts of disruptive civil disobedience. But their sentiment reveals our popular misunderstanding of the life and legacy of America’s favorite civil rights leader.
=====Remembering Dr. King's Defense of Voting Rights=====
[https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/remembering-dr-kings-defense-voting-rights by Eunice Hyon Min Rho 16/1/12 ACLU]
During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights groups and almost a thousand student volunteers converged in Mississippi to register African-American voters. The “Mississippi Summer Project” was met with unrelenting violence: 1,000 arrests, 35 shootings, 30 bombed buildings, 35 burned churches, 80 beatings, and at least six murders.
=====Martin Luther King: his life and legacy – in pictures=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/apr/04/martin-luther-king-his-life-and-legacy-in-pictures by Sarah Gilbert 4/4/18 The Guardian]
King, front row third from left, listens to a speaker during an assembly at Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1948.
=====March 25, 1965: Last Selma March=====
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/last-selma-march/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 25/3/1965]
If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow.
=====The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You Won’t Read About in Textbooks=====
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/martin-luther-king-police-brutality/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 11/1/22]
On January 10, the Zinn Education Project hosted historian Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that is not found in textbooks and school curricula. This was for the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series of classes with people’s historians.
=====Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.=====
[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-assassination-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ by Dr. Martin Luther King 4/4/18 EJI]
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he’d come to support Black sanitation workers striking for job safety and better wages. Dr. King led an earlier march that ended in looting and violence, but after talking with local activists, he returned for another march scheduled for April 5.
=====Memorializing Martin Luther King, Jr.=====
[https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/28/memorializing-martin-luther-king-jr/ by Michael Yates - Paul Le Blanc 28/8/13 COUNTERPUNCH]
We often visit the monuments and museums along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and each time I am surprised at my heightened emotions when we are there. Maybe it is because the museums are free and some of the memorials grand and inspiring, and I can imagine for a few hours that this country will one day live up to its professed ideals. In the city a few weeks ago, we looked forward to seeing our old favorites and were excited to see for the first time the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
=====Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety=====
[https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety by npr 16/1/23]
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
=====The one thing about Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatness everyone keeps missing=====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/us/martin-luther-king-jr-listener-blake by John Blake 20/1/20 CNN]
Most people recall what the cameras caught: King declaring “I have a dream!” before 250,000 jubilant supporters at the March on Washington during a muggy, sun-splashed summer day. But there was one crucial exchange that the cameras didn’t catch.
=====< Everyone from the Tea Party to immigrants rights groups want a piece of Dr. King=====
[https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954537 by GENE DEMBY 10/1/24 npr]
What's good, y'all? You're listening to CODE SWITCH. I'm Gene Demby. So way back in the very early days of CODE SWITCH, in 2013, way before we had a podcast, even, some of my colleagues on the team ran this Twitter feed, back when, you know, it was still called Twitter. That account was named @todayin1963, and the idea behind it was really simple. Every day the account would tweet out news items from newspapers from that same corresponding day but 50 years earlier, in 1963.
=====Memphis Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.=====
[https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/599361723/memphis-remembers-martin-luther-king-jr by Debbie Elliott 4/4/18 npr]
WALTER CRONKITE: Good evening. Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis, Tenn. Police have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed young white man seen running from the scene.
=====Funeral Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.=====
[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2006/01/13/january-13-2006-funeral-tribute-to-martin-luther-king-jr/8535/ by  L. Harold DeWolf 13/1/06 PBS]
It was my privilege to teach Martin Luther King, to march with him in Mississippi, agonize and pray with him in the midst of the worst violence at St. Augustine, to spend many hours counseling with him, to go through great volumes of his private papers organizing them, to spend many days and nights in his home. I know the innermost thoughts of this man as deeply as I know that of any man on earth. It has been the highest privilege of my life, this personal friendship.
=====White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter=====
[https://www.vox.com/2016/7/8/12128506/police-shootings-support by Jon Crowley 8/7/16 Vox]
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=====Martin Luther King Jr. Fast Facts=====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/us/martin-luther-king-jr-fast-facts by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 28/12/20 CNN]
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was best known for his role in the civil rights movement and nonviolent protests. His life's work has been honored with a national holiday, schools and public buildings named after him, and a memorial on the National Mall in Washington. Take a look back at the late civil rights leader's defining years. Here, King speaks in Washington in 1968, the year he was assassinated.
=====When I Met Dr. King=====
[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/when-i-met-dr-king by Charlayne Hunter-Gault 4/4/18 THE NEW YORKER]
My one and only encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., was during a chance meeting on what was then called “Sweet Auburn Avenue,” the prosperous hub of black-owned businesses in Atlanta. It was the summer of 1961, when King had earned the love and respect of the city’s young civil-rights demonstrators with whom he had marched.
=====The sanctification — and sanitization — of Martin Luther King Jr.=====
[https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/4/17193286/martin-luther-king-assassination-50th-anniversary-jeanne-theoharis by P.R. Lockhart 21/1/19 Vox]
MLK was murdered more than 50 years ago. His legacy has been distorted ever since.
=====Important parts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy are often glossed over=====
[https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073661284/important-parts-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-legacy-are-often-glossed-over by Adrian Florido 17/1/22 npr]
For many Americans, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is a day of public service, a time to volunteer in their communities. It's also a day when many of us reflect on the legacy of the late civil rights leader. NPR's Adrian Florido reports that ongoing fights for voting and racial justice have also sparked a reckoning over how King's legacy is often invoked in that work.
=====News: 4 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most memorable speeches=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/article/2018/04/5-of-martin-luther-king-jrs-most-memorable-speeches by Emilie Plesset 3/4/18 PBS]
Before he was assassinated at age 39, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, organized the 1963 March on Washington, advocated for civil disobedience and non-violent protest, and became one of the most influential figures in American history.
=====How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause=====
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/books/review/kennedy-and-king-steven-levingston.html by James Goodman 29/6/17 The New York Times]
Early in this absorbing history, Steven Levingston tells the story of John F. Kennedy’s telephone call to one Coretta Scott King two weeks before the 1960 presidential election. Her husband had been arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta department store, and then, after all those arrested with him were released, held for violating the terms of his “probation” for an earlier traffic violation: driving (while black) with an expired license.
=====Martin Luther King is not your mascot=====
[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2024/01/14/1224059925/martin-luther-king-day-legacy by Leah Donnella 14/1/24 npr]
One cold January evening about 10 years ago, I was walking in Philadelphia, when a stranger called out to me from across the narrow street. "Hey," he said, "Can I get your number?" I smiled politely and kept walking, but he gave it one more shot. "C'mon — it's what Dr. King would've wanted!" And that is how I met the love of my life.
=====Martin Luther King, Jr.=====
[https://www.pbs.org/articles/martin-luther-king-jr by PBS 7/9/13]
In January 1968, Public Broadcast Laboratory sent a camera crew to Mississippi to document Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he traveled all over the South to rally support for the Poor People's Campaign scheduled for May. The documentary was never finished due to King's assassination on April 4, 1968. The film crew was with King at the hotel when he was shot and killed.
=====Malcolm and Martin, closer than we ever thought=====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/19/Malcolmx.king/index.html by John Blake 19/5/10 CNN]
(CNN) -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was leaving a news conference one afternoon when a tall man with a coppery complexion stepped out of the crowd and blocked his path.
=====Jonathan Eig's new biography examines the life of Martin Luther King Jr.=====
[https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176371630/jonathan-eigs-new-biography-examines-the-life-of-martin-luther-king-jr by npr 16/5/23]
The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history. But in that life, one thing is easy to overlook - how young he was. King became a nationally known civil rights leader in his mid-20s. When he gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington in 1963, he was in his early 30s, though his voice suggested the gravity of long experience.
====='Why?': Remembering Nina Simone's Tribute To The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.=====
[https://www.npr.org/2008/04/06/89418339/why-remembering-nina-simones-tribute-to-the-rev-martin-luther-king-jr by npr 6/4/08]
Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed "Why? (The King of Love is Dead)," a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King's death.
=====Star Trek's Uhura Reflects On MLK Encounter=====
[https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Reflects-On-MLK-Encounter by npr 17/1/11]
Nichelle Nichols caused a sensation in the 1960s for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in the classic television series, "Star Trek." It was one of the first times a black woman was cast as a main character in a major television show. But Nichols almost quit the show to pursue other dreams. She talks to host Michel Martin about her character's importance during the civil rights movement, and how Martin Luther King Junior convinced her to stay on "Star Trek".
=====The Power Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Anger=====
[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/691298594/the-power-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-anger by Nell Greenfieldboyce 20/2/19 npr]
When Martin Luther King, Jr. was in high school, he won an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks. He and a beloved teacher were returning home in triumph, riding on a bus, when some white passengers got on. The white bus driver ordered King and his teacher to give up their seats, and cursed them. King wanted to stay seated, but his teacher urged him to obey the law. They had to stand in the aisle for the 90 miles back to Atlanta, Ga.
=====How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Imprisonment Changed American Politics Forever=====
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/review/nine-days-martin-luther-king-jr-stephen-kendrick-paul-kendrick.html by Raymond Arsenault 12/1/21 The New York Times]
The African-American struggle for freedom and civil rights is replete with dramatic and harrowing stories, many involving intimidation and threats of violence from white supremacist defenders of the status quo. One of the most consequential of these stories is the subject of “Nine Days,” a compelling narrative written by the father-and-son team of Stephen and Paul Kendrick, co-authors of two previous books on race, law and politics.
=====An 'Exhausted' Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final 31 Hours=====
[https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/599192221/an-exhausted-martin-luther-king-jr-s-final-31-hours by Noel King , Jeffrey Pierre 4/4/18 npr]
"While the plane was about to take off, there was a bomb threat that was specifically targeted at King and that delayed the departure of the flight," says Joseph Rosenbloom, author of the new book Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours. "They brought dogs onto the plane, they evacuated the passengers. And so the plane arrived an hour or so late in Memphis."
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