Martin Luther King
I know this will surprise the vast majority of Americans, but Martin Luther King was a person with shifting politics who moved far to the left in his later years..
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial As this Financial Times piece points out, Martin Luther King taught a college course in 1961 and his syllabus would outrage Republicans today: King.
For tonight's film, let's watch Martin Luther King's 1967 speech at Stanford. Titled "The Other America," here he laid out his late-life quest to fight poverty in a cross-racial campaign.
The march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went forward March 28, 1968. Most of the 5,000-plus who participated were described as working-class, church-going people.
Above: A man who believed precisely what contemporary white conservatives happen to think on a given day Only conservative whites truly understand noted conservative Martin Luther King, Jr. The greatest.
The children of Martin Luther King care about one thing: money. That's why the new African-American history museum at the Smithsonian has no important artifacts from King. When the museum.
On May 21, 1968, the Poor People's Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. Attempting to go on after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
On a day where we are celebrating MLK Day with a bunch of old white men complaining about the behavior of a young, brash black man in a football game.