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[https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/15/mlk_day_special by Martin Luther King 15/1/24 DEMOCRACY NOW] | [https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/15/mlk_day_special by Martin Luther King 15/1/24 DEMOCRACY NOW] | ||
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. | Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. | ||
=====March 26, 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/martin-luther-king-jr-malcolm-x/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | |||
The traditional curriculum portrays the Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement as the evil twins of the Civil Rights Movement while over simplifying the Civil Rights Movement and treating the Black Power Movement as “too hot to touch.” | |||
