January 2006

What Did Martin Luther King Really Believe?

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference released a memorial poster of MLK after his death in April 1968. Library of Congress

This month we celebrate another birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights hero who was gunned down in Memphis in April 1968 at the age of 39. Since King’s death, historians and others across the political spectrum have hotly contested the meaning of his legacy. Who’s right?

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