The Other Side of the Mountaintop
Dr. Martin Luther King’s life has been simplified, scholars say, his anger blurred, his militancy rarely discussed and his disappointments and harsh critiques of government’s failures glossed over.
Dr. Martin Luther King’s life has been simplified, scholars say, his anger blurred, his militancy rarely discussed and his disappointments and harsh critiques of government’s failures glossed over.
With the death of Martin Luther King Jr., American liberalism suffered a blow from which it has still not recovered.
On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, TIME talks with the four surviving aides who were with him that fateful day.
King would be 79 now, but those who knew him say his power would remain undiminished.
New York was a shocked, reeling city 40 years ago today - as news flashed from Memphis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
Were he alive today, King would call for an end to the war in Iraq, and to transfer the $1 trillion war expenses to a new war on poverty at home.
After 1965, the civil rights leader grew angrier over America’s unwillingness to change.
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