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...continued to make progress for black people who have a college degree. They have moved comfortably into the political and business life of America. But very few people have been able to deal with the poorest of the poor, which is what Martin was doing at the time of his death...
Before long, millions of people did. It debuted on April 4 in London's Trafalgar Square, the assembly point for the four-day march. Over the next few days, it appeared in countless newspaper photos and TV reports. Bayard Rustin, an American protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who took part in the march, brought the symbol home to a growing civil rights movement dedicated to nonviolence. When the Vietnam War started getting out of hand, protesters discovered they had a ready-made icon to signal their feelings...
...experience." Some of the projects had been kicked around, but with Schultz back in the CEO chair, everything started to get done more rapidly. "The rate at which we're making these moves is far and away faster than anything I've experienced the last few years," says COO Martin Coles...
...cannot hear the name Martin Luther King Jr. and not think of death. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is death that ultimately defined him. To be sure, King was courageous in the face of death. But the unrelenting threat of bombs exploding and snipers shooting took its toll. King suffered desperate stretches of depression that sometimes alarmed his closest aides and friends. He fought valiantly to maintain sanity and focus in the midst of the surrounding turmoil. One of his top aides wanted him to consult a psychiatrist because of his steep descent into...
Michael Eric Dyson is university professor of sociology at Georgetown University. He is the author of 16 books, including April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America, from which this essay is adapted...