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"I Have A Dream": Annotated
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s iconic speech, annotated with relevant scholarship on the literary, political, and religious roots of his words.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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JSTOR Daily
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February 28, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call For a Poor People’s Campaign
In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Atlantic
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March 20, 1968
The Crisis in America’s Cities
Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Atlantic
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August 15, 1967
Let Justice Roll Down
"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Nation
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March 16, 1965
How Much Had Schools Really Been Desegregated by 1964?
Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Atlantic
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May 7, 1964
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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University of Pennsylvania
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April 16, 1963
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Defanged
A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.
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Eric Foner
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London Review of Books
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September 28, 2023
Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60
King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change. In many ways, we face the same choice today.
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Eric Foner
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The Nation
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August 28, 2023
After the Murder
Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.
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Donovan X. Ramsey
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Guernica
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July 6, 2023
Restoring the Real, Radical Martin Luther King Jr. in “King: A Life”
A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.
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Jonathan Eig
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Steve Nathans-Kelly
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Chicago Review Of Books
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May 23, 2023
The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography
New archival material and a narrowing window in which to speak to people who knew Martin Luther King, Jr. fueled the work, said the author.
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Jonathan Eig
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Benjamin P. Russell
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New York Times
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May 8, 2023
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability
We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.
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Kelefa Sanneh
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The New Yorker
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May 8, 2023
The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
“King: A Life,” by Jonathan Eig, is the first comprehensive account of the civil rights icon in decades.
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Dwight Garner
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New York Times
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May 8, 2023
The Man Who Knew Exactly What the F.B.I. Was Doing to Martin Luther King Jr.
He was the president of the United States.
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Jeanne Theoharis
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Jonathan Eig
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New York Times
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April 12, 2023
The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
His last Sunday sermon reminds us about the perils of not being woke.
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Esau McCaulley
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New York Times
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January 15, 2023
What Makes Laws Unjust
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
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Randall Kennedy
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Boston Review
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April 11, 2022
“Somehow This Madness Must Cease.”
Revisiting MLK Jr.’s sermon against the Vietnam War.
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Christopher Lydon
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Literary Hub
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April 8, 2022
The “Radical” King and a Usable Past
On Martin Luther King's use of radical ideas to create an understanding of the history of America.
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Robert Greene II
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Black Perspectives
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April 4, 2022
King Was A Critical Race Theorist Before There Was a Name For It
When states ban antiracism history from schools, they're disavowing what King stood for.
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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Los Angeles Times
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January 17, 2022
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King
The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The Daily Princetonian
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January 17, 2022
The International MLK
“The social revolution which is taking place in this country is not an isolated, detached phenomenon. It is part of a worldwide revolution that is taking place.”
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Robert Greene II
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Black Perspectives
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January 17, 2022
The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics have diluted King's dream.
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Andre E. Key
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Religion Dispatches
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January 13, 2022
What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About the Filibuster: ‘A Minority of Misguided Senators’
The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.
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Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
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January 4, 2022
Martin Luther King Knew That Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Police Brutality
Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.
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Jeanne Theoharis
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The Atlantic
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September 15, 2021
What Dignity Demands
A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.
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Brandon M. Terry
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New York Review of Books
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March 11, 2021
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to Liberal Allies — and Why It Resonates Today
King understood the perils of submerged racism.
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Jeanne Theoharis
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Made by History
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February 8, 2021
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