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...something. "I've been to 60 schools," he says, "visiting five to six classrooms a day, plus a speech at the Rotary Club and jogging." This week will bring more of the same, with speeches in New York City on disadvantaged children, Atlanta in observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, San Antonio on bilingual education, then Los Angeles to boost art education...
...nation prepares to celebrate for the second time the federal holiday marking Martin Luther King's birthday, the civil rights leader sometimes seems in danger of being transformed from a flesh-and-blood hero to a gauzy legend. Now a provocative new biography based on interviews with his closest associates and examination of FBI files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act sheds a revealing new light on King's human side and on the vicious secret pressures he faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York...
CERTAINLY, we honor Martin Luther King for concrete reasons. Although many individuals were responsible for the great victories of the 1960s, it was King to whom the nation looked during the successful reformist phase of the movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Protest, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were all major accomplishments for King, as he coordinated the downfall of Jim Crow segregation...
Almost two and a half decades ago, in the sweltering afternoon heat of our nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of the day when "little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." If we hope to fulfill his dream, if we want to counteract the conservative backlash that threatens our nation today, we must remember what King has taught us and follow his lead. Failure to recall his struggles and his vision will cause us to plummet inexorably to the base...
Professor Marshall Hyatt is a member of the Afro-American Studies Department where he teaches a conference course on Martin Luther King Jr., as well as courses on civil rights and race relations in America. His publications include a book on Black images in film and articles on civil rights and race theory. He has recently completed a new book, Franz Boas and the Study of Man: The Dynamics of Ethnicity. Hyatt will leave Harvard next fall to become a Professor of Afro-American History and the Director of the Center for Afro-American Studies at Wesleyan University...