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Turns Out Martin Luther King Jr. Didn’t Really Criticize Malcolm X
In 1965, Playboy magazine published an interview with Martin Luther King Jr. in which the civil rights ... the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography King: A Life, discovered in his ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. 'Knew That His Own Government Was Out to Destroy Him.' Here's What Helped Him Persevere
Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil rights leader on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t ...
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The Radical Paradox of Martin Luther King’s Devotion to Nonviolence
First there was the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act last July, one of the central achievements of Martin Luther King Jr.’s crusade ... according to Taylor Branch, whose three-volume ...
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MLK assassination 57 years later: How the King family celebrated the civil rights icon today
Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. The civil rights leader was visiting Memphis to help ...
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March in Chicago marks 57 years since assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for ...