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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/dr-king-on-reconstruction by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 13/1/22] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/dr-king-on-reconstruction by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 13/1/22] | ||
We recommend reading what Dr. Martin Luther King said about Reconstruction as part of his tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois on Feb. 23, 1968. King explains that myths about Reconstruction poisoned “the collective mind of America with racism” and he describes how Du Bois set out to demolish those myths in his vital text, Black Reconstruction in America. | We recommend reading what Dr. Martin Luther King said about Reconstruction as part of his tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois on Feb. 23, 1968. King explains that myths about Reconstruction poisoned “the collective mind of America with racism” and he describes how Du Bois set out to demolish those myths in his vital text, Black Reconstruction in America. | ||
=====Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign Reborn===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/11/martin_luther_kings_poor_peoples_campaign by Martin Luther King 11/1/18 DEMOCRACY NOW] | |||
Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 89 years old this Jan. 15. Assassinated at the age of 39 on April 4, 1968, his much-too-short life forever changed America. | |||
